I often find myself defaulting to the “All or nothing Mindset”, I find it reasurring to hear/read something different occassionally. Especially as striving for the “All” can leave me exhausted about it all!
As someone who is the first to go “yeah, but so-n-so does this-n-that,” I needed this reminder of the thin line between “being informative” and “being a killjoy.”
Caveats are nice, but I still shouldn’t discourage folx from making better choices.
Unfortunately even the little bits of data that are gathered can form a bigger picture over even a few years. See the recent acquisition of Ancestry.com by Blackstone (a finance company, IIRC) - now pretty much all of us have some of our genealogy held by them. Why would a finance company want that data(rhetorical question).
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I often find myself defaulting to the “All or nothing Mindset”, I find it reasurring to hear/read something different occassionally. Especially as striving for the “All” can leave me exhausted about it all!
As someone who is the first to go “yeah, but so-n-so does this-n-that,” I needed this reminder of the thin line between “being informative” and “being a killjoy.”
Caveats are nice, but I still shouldn’t discourage folx from making better choices.
I like this article. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that, and trying to keep some privacy is worth it, especially now.
Thanks for the kind words!
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80/20 applies for everyone unless you are James Bond or Ed Snowden.
Context on 80/20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
I agree with you and the premise, in general.
Unfortunately even the little bits of data that are gathered can form a bigger picture over even a few years. See the recent acquisition of Ancestry.com by Blackstone (a finance company, IIRC) - now pretty much all of us have some of our genealogy held by them. Why would a finance company want that data(rhetorical question).