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#2(July 2007)
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#3Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
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#4Somewhat similar to Bruce Sterling's Viridian design movement http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008_11_01_archive.html
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#5(July 2007)
But I am still happy to read it again. I think we need to constantly remind ourselves with advice like this. I am going to print this essay now and give copies to my wife and kids.
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#6How is it relevant to the community?
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#7Find the few things that matter, and drop the others. This approach might apply to many areas of life.
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#8(July 2007)
But I am still happy to read it again. I think we need to constantly remind ourselves with advice like this. I am going to print this essay now and give copies to my wife and kids.
Sure - my comment was not a negative. The date should be in the post title though, when it's something so old (hah, 3 years old? that's ancient! What the internet does to us, eh...)
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#9"I think humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model of what's around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally exhausting."
On a related note , Steve Jobs has no furniture.
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#10This is great. I came to the same conclusion some time ago. Of course, I never articulated it so elequently.
Anyway, anytime I bring new stuff into my house I take the same amount of stuff and put it in a box. About four times a year I call the Salvation Army and they pick up the box.
Before buying something new, I have to think about what old stuff is going in the box. Normally it isn't hard. On Christmas, when I get a lot of new stuff, it can be a challange. The worst is when someone gives me something I will never use and I have to put it right in the box, which seems ungrateful. Other than that, the box is liberating and putting stuff in it feels great.