Everything is recorded now — and that's the problem

Ravi Mehta has a simple observation that catches you off guard: we've stopped filtering and started hoarding. Every meeting, every conversation, every decision gets recorded now. The problem isn't that we're storing more — it's that we've confused recording with curation.

Mehta's argument is that prioritization and curation are different skills, and we've been treating them as the same thing. Prioritization means picking what matters. Curation means deciding what to keep and what to let go. When everything gets recorded, prioritization breaks down — there's too much to sort through. You end up with a folder full of recordings you'll never revisit, because you didn't actually curate them.

The implication is practical. The people who handle the volume well aren't the ones who record the most. They're the ones who decide what gets captured and what doesn't. They build personal systems that let them surface what matters without drowning in what was recorded. That's the skill gap opening up: curation over hoarding.

Why this matters for us: If we keep recording everything and never curate, we end up buried under the very tools that were supposed to help us — and the people who learn to curate will be the ones who actually get things done.