When companies are spending that much capital, they almost can't help becoming unreliable narrators about what the technology can do right now versus what they hope it will do in two or three years

You still need rhetoric, timing, emotion and narrative. But I'd say the lesson is "good ideas need good communicators" not "good ideas need lies"

Sometimes good ideas just have to fight habit

Lots of things succeed after early hype not because the lies were necessary, but because the underlying idea was good enough to survive them

It is a bit overstated as a universal rule, but as a practical heuristic it is excellent

Feels like a nice middle ground between what the article describes and something more tangible

The value isn't just in the recorded content, it's in the ritual

What makes this example land differently for me is that the intent stays human all the way through

Normally, memory work is you pulling things out of your mind. Here, it's the system pushing things back at you

This hits a really compelling middle ground between journaling, genealogy and lifelogging