Comment by jen729w

> The Johnny Decimal website is silent on the subject of stewardship. Here I want to focus on two aspects: keeping things working, and managing succession.

An error I intend to correct! On sufficiently large projects I believe you need a ‘librarian’ who has ownership of the system. I’ll expand on this on the site eventually.

Ah, if only I didn’t have an actual job. :-/

> We have had two generations of office workers who have never experienced properly functioning filing systems

This sentiment inspired the opening paragraphs of the site. We literally used to have people - women - called ‘administrators’. Their job would be to file things so that people could find them again. Then we all got a computer, the number of files exploded 100x, and we pretended like we could just search for what we needed.