Thursday, July 21, 2005
Proliferate
A friend recently pointed out that I have several blogs, several websites, and myriad email addresses. Such are the pitfalls of the digital online net-age. Let me expose my own stupidity, before I expose that of others (that is the point of this blog): let me count my email addresses. One at geo.arizona.edu, one at arizona.edu, one at Yahoo!, one at Hotmail, at least two at Gmail, one for The Slant newsletter, and who knows how many at Pair networks, who hosts Sabkha.com, and this blog. Antiproliferate = consolidate! For the last six or eight months, I've been in consolidation mode. Many full trash bins, trips to Goodwill, and yard sales later, I have 26.7% less stuff (by weight). Finally I can see my life hiding under the clutter. Now I must tackle my room and my workshop areas. Currently these areas are 49.86% more cluttered than the rest of my existence. Consolidation and simplification spread rapidly, like any low-viscosity fluid. I'm hoping they will spread into my digital life.
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Regarding consolidation, a person can still consolidate without decreasing the amount of items they own. ie: 100 sheets of paper, strewn throughout your home, can be consolidated into one single file folder, you don't necessarily need to get rid of 26 sheets of paper to consolidate (giving you 26% less paper). Therefore, to consolidate your digital mailings, you could route all of your emails to one single email account. This is just a start.
I am curious, how long did it take you to weigh all of your stuff? Wouldn't you need this weight to calculate that you actually have reduced your stuff by 26.7%? I am also curious as to how you define and measure "clutter". I would like to measure the percentage of clutter in my own life, but need a standard to work from.
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I am curious, how long did it take you to weigh all of your stuff? Wouldn't you need this weight to calculate that you actually have reduced your stuff by 26.7%? I am also curious as to how you define and measure "clutter". I would like to measure the percentage of clutter in my own life, but need a standard to work from.
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