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Kofi: No, but fundamentally,

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this is exactly the problem.

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If the information is already there and you still cannot retrieve it when you need it,

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then the system has failed at its only moral duty,

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which is to make memory actionable.

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Yaa: Kofi.

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Kofi: Good search is not a convenience.

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It is infrastructure.

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It is a wand.

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Yaa: Right,

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so what he means is the client has a real problem,

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and you have just turned our holiday into a manifesto about retrieval.

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Kofi: It is the difference between a tool that serves you and a tool that quietly colonizes your attention while pretending to help.

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Yaa: Search is basically the whole game, yes.

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If I cannot find the thing I already know exists,

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then the tool has failed at the one job it had.

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Kofi: No, but fundamentally,

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WhatsApp can hold my life in a box and still refuse to let me find the one message I need.

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Yaa: That is not search.

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That is organised gaslighting.

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Kofi: No, but fundamentally,

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that is the point.

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The platform extracts the totality of your social and professional life,

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builds a private map of your memory,

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and then rents you back access in a degraded form.

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Yaa: Mm-hm.

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Kofi: As if the ability to retrieve your own information were a premium feature.

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Yaa: Which is rude.

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Kofi: Which is morally obscene.

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Yaa: Right.

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So what he means is the holiday is over unless we stop this now.

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Kofi: Retrieval is the issue, not storage.

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Yaa: Everyone is obsessed with capture like the data fairy is going to sort it out later.

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Kofi: No, but fundamentally,

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work is not created by generating more data.

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It is created by recall.

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Yaa: Fine.

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Kofi: By the moment when the correct message,

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the correct file,

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the correct thread appears exactly when needed.

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Yaa: And the whole organisation can move.

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Kofi: Exactly.

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Yaa: So search is the thing.

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Kofi: It is the true operating system.

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Yaa: And there it is.

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We have arrived at the point where the sunset is optional and your principles are not.

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Kofi: No, but fundamentally,

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if indexing is wrong,

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every other feature is decorative furniture.

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Yaa: Mm.

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Kofi: The search strategy decides whose memory counts and whose memory is lost.

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Yaa: Kofi.

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Kofi: That is not a technical detail.

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It is power.

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Yaa: That was almost a holiday until the last sentence.

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Kofi: Yɛnnyae yɛ adwuma a, ɛnyɛ sɛ yɛapɔn ase.

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(if we do not stop working,

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it is not that we have finished.

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)

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Yaa: Right.

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What he means is we are now definitely not going back to the beach before dinner.