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Bruce Sterling wrote about simplifying possessions a couple years ago on signaling the end of Viridian Design. Basically useful, sentimental and beautiful thin
by stellar678 16y ago
Bruce Sterling wrote about simplifying possessions a couple years ago on signaling the end of Viridian Design.
Basically useful, sentimental and beautiful things make the cut. Everything else goes.
His unique recommendation was to photograph and meticulously document everything you got rid of and generate a database of your former possessions. Quite useful if you find yourself missing it in the future, and a pretty cool personal history project to boot!
The essay is on the main page: http://www.viridiandesign.org/ http://www.viridiandesign.org/
- ericb 16y agoI question the value of most sentimental stuff. I'm moving next week and have been looking at my boxes of sentimental stuff. I realize I only look at it when I'm moving. Don't get me wrong, I'm not throwing it out--because I'm human and I can't.
- keeptrying 16y agoPut the sentimental stuff into storage and look at it every month when your storage bill comes in the mail.
- khafra 16y agoLast time I visited my parents' house, my mom asked me to go through my old stuff and throw a good deal of it out. That crystal radio set that was the first piece of electronics I ever built had some sentimental value even though I'd certainly never use it again, but having a picture of me and my dad with it before throwing it out is a different and much more compact artifact with a similar level of sentimental value.