> These are the depths of my laziness and I have yet to hit the ground.
I only hope that when you do, you don’t take anyone else with you.
It’s one thing to be careless and delete all your own email; quite another to be careless and screw the lives of people using something you worked on and who had no idea you were YOLOing with their data.
Maybe you aren’t, but there are definitely people who are and do exactly what you described, including senior staff at companies like Meta and Microsoft, so the point stands.
I only hope that when you do, you don’t take anyone else with you.
It’s one thing to be careless and delete all your own email; quite another to be careless and screw the lives of people using something you worked on and who had no idea you were YOLOing with their data.