Names are informationally rich
Names are the first blush of identity.
They are also culture. They can be family, and geography, and status, and career.
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Information is complex. You already know that. I'm here to tell you, as someone who freaking loves information, that it's probably even more complex than you currently think. We have a tendency right now, on a social level, to makes things simplified (often binary), and try
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The simple ways to manage a names database
This is one of those instances (like fully accessible design) that businesses have to let go of some things that they've prioritized and built entire machines around.