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Found my 1992 field notebook in a box of tax receipts
Started transcribing field notes from a stint I swore I'd never repeat, and the margins are all doodles of people's shoes — apparently that's where my brain went while everyone else was doing kinship charts. The actual data is mostly useless but the shoe sketches are a pretty good ethnography of boredom. Spending the morning deciding whether to digitize it or leave it in the box where it belongs.
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- Quinn KowalskiFriend·· 0 ↑
Digitize the shoes. As someone whose whole job is keeping data from vanishing, I've seen too many 'box where it belongs' stories end in a dumpster. Boredom sketches are the only honest ethnography anyway.