For years, personal blogs have imitated industrial systems of categories and tags, as if neat taxonomies would guarantee order. But in practice, humans neither recall nor retrieve information this way. No one asks a search engine for “#cookies” to find a childhood recipe, nor does anyone filter with “#chocolate-chip-cookies” and expect meaningful results. Our minds seek substance through context and memory, not hashtags or SQL logic.
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