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wife to me this morning: "I got a babysitter for next Saturday, how about we use the time to Marie Kondo the house?"

• perfmode 8y ago
  I’ve been on my Kondo all month long. It’s a daily grind. One chochsky at a time.
  • slowmovintarget 8y ago
    So all we had to do was label housework spiritual, call it by another name, and it's cool again? Neatness re-branded, I suppose.
    • perfmode 8y ago
      Why does it feel like people comment on things without even a cursory exposure to the central ideas. And if there is exposure, there’s certainly no demonstrated comprehension. That’s not why it works. It works because Kondo provides a robust algorithm that works pretty darn well for 99.9% of inputs. She breaks things down into approachable steps. She provides an order of operations rooted in an understanding of human psychology: start with the easy things first. Then, move to harder things. Don’t exhaust yourself mentally. Don’t burn up your willpower at the beginning of the project. She provides routines and ways of making decision making that preserve willpower and help you to avoid the trap of overthinking things. Marie Kondo is an architect and engineer and psychologist and artist. This is her power.
      • slowmovintarget 8y ago
        My comment was about how it is being sold. Even the title of the submission had "Magic" in it. It may actually be a system of protocols, but you don't get that from the PR pushes.