Good thing I’m a hoarder. If I like something, I archive it and back it up locally. For example, a couple of days ago, I needed some digital assets for an Adobe program that I had downloaded a few months ago because I liked them and thought I might need them in the future. When I went back to the company page a couple days ago, everything had vanished! I'm glad I had downloaded them before and checked my backup to retrieve them.
Many many years ago I read a Fred Wilson (avc.com) blog post about a founder who vented that a tech journalist's article on the founder's company was a hit piece. The tech journalist was recommended by Fred Wilson who was an investor in the founder's company. Fred wrote the tech journalist rarely ever does their own independent research. The article's position must have come from the founder himself.
I can't find that article. And I have looked hard for it. I think now it must have been taken down. And that is sad. It had a valuable lesson that I want to share it with others these days.
Do you engage in any kind of physical archiving? I'm not going so far as to say it's superior to digital archiving but it does simplify maintenance of the assets in the event that you're incapable of it.
Only few pictures I have them printed, the rest is all digital for the most part, unless you mean tapes/DVD/etc as a physical archive, then yeah I have that too.
