I love reading this. I did feel the difference post-more-than-a-decade moving around the world, and then after only 2 years in the same place (and 2 kids in the mix haha!).
Which is why we're building objet.cc now -- and would love to get you in to help you build your perfect system 🤗
yea — very on point. maintenance by design for Stuff is partly about designing the system to periodically encounter a Stuff shock like what you describe, but i have been thinking more and more that it is about designing the system to be less amenable to unconsidered accumulation. e.g. changing the type, amount, and visibility of storage (which applies to both physical and non-physical Stuff). btw was tempted to say maintenance by design is a kind of meta-shock, but i think is actually a different thing.
I love reading this. I did feel the difference post-more-than-a-decade moving around the world, and then after only 2 years in the same place (and 2 kids in the mix haha!).
Which is why we're building objet.cc now -- and would love to get you in to help you build your perfect system 🤗
i have been told that children irresistibly attract Stuff 😂
Great reflection. I also have too much stuff. Even though we moved (across borders within Europe) 5 times in the last 15 years.
We have started, together with the kids, to conciously give away stuff to others who can still use it.
continual mindfulness is essential — Stuff lies in wait, ready to ambush us with its seductive "usefulness"
I called it stuff shocks a decade ago :) https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/16/the-las-vegas-rules-ii-stuff-science/
yea — very on point. maintenance by design for Stuff is partly about designing the system to periodically encounter a Stuff shock like what you describe, but i have been thinking more and more that it is about designing the system to be less amenable to unconsidered accumulation. e.g. changing the type, amount, and visibility of storage (which applies to both physical and non-physical Stuff). btw was tempted to say maintenance by design is a kind of meta-shock, but i think is actually a different thing.