Listener Favorites: Dennis Xu | A World Without Folders

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Are you tired of the never-ending struggle to keep your files organized and easily accessible? We sit down with Dennis Xu, co-founder of Mem Labs, to discuss the revolutionary new self-organizing workspace that is changing the way we store and access information. Using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, Mem helps knowledge workers around the world stay on top of their workload and create new knowledge with ease.

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.
0:24.5	What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose.
0:28.1	Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose.
0:32.0	The first folder was not a digital folder.
0:35.5	It was filing cabinets.
0:37.0	And so that was invented in like late 19th
0:39.0	century in a purely physical world. Right. And if you think about that, okay, well, you know,
0:45.0	that makes sense. We don't have these computers that can arbitrarily just index information that you
0:51.3	can just retrieve from instantly. The physical incarnation of a filing cabinet, that was actually a huge point of
0:57.3	animation for it in terms of how people organized information.
1:01.3	Then when computers were invented, right, because people had become so familiar with these
1:05.1	filing cabinets that people who amended the personal computer, they said, okay, well,
1:09.4	we're just going to take this geomorphic filing cabinet and we're going to turn it into something that is very familiar to
1:15.1	people. And that's ultimately how a folder came to be. And whenever you have new technology
1:20.1	that arises, a lot of the efforts goes into making it look and appear familiar so that people can actually adopt it.
1:32.6	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window
1:37.1	into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements,
1:41.8	built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created
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