Thursday, March 02, 2006

The magic world of your receipts

Yup, I sort receipts these days. I look around your office and pull them out of the abyss they've slipped in to. I recontextualize them as objects and as raw information which, I believe, would love to interact with you...ignore your receipts long enough, and they will physically fade and their message will be less clear.

Your receipts will most likely be there for you when you come about, but the opportunity to interact with that data in a way that is meaningful simply because it is current, will have been lost. You will have an entirely different conversation with your data, and from my experience, it's one that's more stressful, since it's competing with the new current data.

It's distracting to run a business and learn about how to run a business at the same time, though that's what happens- you learn how to run a business, if you're lucky, and how not to run a business if you are less so. Your paper trail is a great place to find out how your business is doing.

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