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Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a
by montenegrohugo 6y ago
Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a shirt is a shirt, shorts are shorts. When you have a stack of freshly washed clothes, sorting them according to type is so trivial it is a thoughtless process.
However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes pile, the clothes organizer must think of how this particular piece of cloth is used. Is this just an old t-shirt? Or is this particular old t-shirt out of favor with my husband and so he uses it for his workout? Or should it go in the pyjama t-shirts pile?
So writes seem to be much more costly (cognitively) when organizing clothes according to usage rather than type (if these clothes are not your own in which case determining their usage does seem trivial), and your wife may be optimizing for it (again, see initial assumption)
- xyzelement 6y agoReasonable analysis. In the case of my wife, it's a matter of what she believes is right (shirts go together because they are shirts) not of expediency of any of the operations :)
- chaboud 6y agoPersonal optimization schemes fall apart when we have to interoperate with others, just like in system architectures. Think about the cognitive load of your spouse when you decide how a system should work.
- Taniwha 6y agoI think that if you want your own classification you have to put away your own laundry ...
- ComputerGuru 6y agoWhy are you bringing this toxicity into it? OP didn’t say anything about who does the laundry. They could be each doing their own or he could be doing it for both of them - it’s entirely besides the point of how they prefer the clothes sorted.
- ItsMattyG 6y agoThe original comment was assuming his partner more often did the laundry, which could explain the difference...
- noisy_boy 6y agoI thought of doing the "writes" as per the use case as having to denormalize the "record" first which is extra work from insert point of view (but optimized for "fetch" - the entire dataset of shirt+pant is right there) - that is not how they come out of the washing machine. They come out normalized as "shirt" "pant" which is optimum for inserts. So if she doing the laundry, her method is the least effort for her.
- extropic-engine 6y agook but the real question for everyone here is do y’all put your leggings in your sock drawer or with your bras/underwear
- ancient_art 6y agoI do both and I order the clothes most times. Clothes I can use in multiple situations (like a pair of jeans or normal t-shirts) are grouped together but I also use "use-case-drawers" (like sports or outside work clothes). My girlfriend (no tech background) uses a more seperated system (work t-shirts are not sorted to work pants) but still seperated by use-case (normal pants /= work pants). I guess it's up to everyones own preferences then..