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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
An Essay on Too Much Stuff
This is a really great article... This is one of the topics I've been thinking about lately, I'm currently reading a book called "It's all too much...", this article has some really good ideas in it...
http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
One of my favorite parts:
http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
One of my favorite parts:
A cluttered room saps one's spirits. One reason, obviously, is that there's¶ 2:57 PM
less room for people in a room full of stuff. But there's more going on than
that. I think humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model
of what's around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you
have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally
exhausting.
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