Johnny here.

This isn't how I feel. I wonder which part of the website gives you the idea that I believe that it is 'the one' and only system?

I mean I could surround every statement on there with "please only do this if you feel that it's for you" but that might get tedious.

I have an idea. I present it. I personally like it. If you don't, that's okay. Go find something else that works for you.

Please don’t call people you know literally nothing about ‘tech bro’. That’s not nice.

I agree with most of your sentiment. I also came to associate the proponents of these system with a a set of other traits: - obsession with tools and methods over outcomes - busywork - insistence with their approach being the only right one It seems these trait could be quite adjacent with tech bro behaviour

I too hate seeing other people excited about things they are interested in

Johnny here.

This website has existed in some form or other for over a decade. I've poured thousands of hours of my spare time in to it, and to helping people on the forum or by email. For a decade.

The workbook went up literally six weeks ago because I quit my full time job in May this year, hoping to make some sort of a living from this hobby of mine. Feedback has been universally positive. It helps people.

My site has no ads, no tracking, no garbage of any kind. Hell, I rebuilt it in Astro so that it doesn't even have JS! And so I spent hundreds of hours writing a thing, which I'm selling. A basic transaction, which you are free to ignore.

Shoot me for trying to pay the rent. I hope you never try to sell anything.

I mean, there's a _lot_ to dislike, but it mostly boils down to this being a physical object system applied to digital objects, and I disagree with every single premise in the list of reasons they give for having created it in the first place. For instance, there's a whole section on how "Search doesn’t help" which ends with "You can search for things, but the results are garbage." - the author hasn't considered that maybe search is garbage for them precisely because they're trying to apply physical object system to digital objects. I don't know about you, but Spotlight on my Mac finds exactly what I'm looking for every single time, because we use simple naming conventions.

I also hate the absolute waste of human cognition this system causes making people try to memorise which number is at the start of a folder name they're looking for. From their own examples, a folder called `22 Contracts` is going to be sorted into a different position in a list than it would if it were just named `Contracts` - without the number, I both know exactly what the name of the folder I want is, and where it will appear in a directory listing. With someone else's choice of number at the front, I know neither of these things.

Basically, every single thing this claims to solve is either not a problem in the first place, is trivially solved without making people learn a stranger's personal numbering preferences, or is made considerably worse by this system.