RichardKennaway comments on How To Have Things Correctly - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Alicorn 17 October 2012 06:10AM

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Comment author: Steven_Bukal 17 October 2012 09:37:03PM 2 points [-]

My default position towards things is hate. I hate stuff. It gets dusty, it has to be managed, it takes up space. A room with lots of stuff in it is cognitively difficult for the brain to process; having lots of stuff around actually drains your mental energy.

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html

I generally dislike owning things that I can't physically carry with me at all times (because "if you don't have something with you, owning it probably hasn't made you more powerful"). Consequently, the majority of what I own I carry with me. The only real exceptions are clothes and books, and I launched a project this week to replace the latter with digital versions which is moving at a decent rate of ten shelves a day.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 October 2012 01:40:11PM 0 points [-]

I launched a project this week to replace [physical books] with digital versions which is moving at a decent rate of ten shelves a day.

I have a question about this, but I decided to put it in the open thread.