Record Everything

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Datafication

Datafy everything you can and worry about making sense of it later.

FOMO concern: Many data points you only get one chance to record in the moment or they're gone forever.

The obvious problem here is that sense-making is (or ought to be) prior to datafication, not the other way around. Very easy to amass a huge dataset that doesn't actually mean anything and twist yourself up trying to analyze it.

Contrast with Data as Toxic Waste