{"id":443,"date":"2005-03-02T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/02\/too-much-of-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2005-03-04T00:28:45","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T05:28:45","slug":"too-much-of-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/02\/too-much-of-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much of a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An all too-true quote from Rajat Paharia at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootburn.com\/2004\/12\/too-much-of-good-thing.html\">rootburn.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Music&#8217;s] transaction cost can be as low as free (depending on if I use something like iTunes or something like BitTorrent). Assuming I used BitTorrent, it&#8217;s cost me nothing and taken me no time, so there&#8217;s no inherent pressure to listen to it. <\/p>\n<p>Repeat this a bunch of times, and all of a sudden, my hard drive is full of music that I&#8217;ve never heard, and the [Digital Photo Effect] starts to kick in. So what do I do? I listen to the same old albums over and over (lately Akufen), because I know I like them and that they won&#8217;t disturb me while working.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the axioms of computer-upgrading is that the number of cluttered files on your hard drive will always rise to fill the amount of space you provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An all too-true quote from Rajat Paharia at rootburn.com: &#8220;[Music&#8217;s] transaction cost can be as low as free (depending on if I use something like iTunes or something like BitTorrent). Assuming I used BitTorrent, it&#8217;s cost me nothing and taken me no time, so there&#8217;s no inherent pressure to listen to it. Repeat this a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/02\/too-much-of-a-good-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too much of a good thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}