Physical clutter often represents plans stuck at decision-points
- examples
- zero-inbox
- clutter on shelf-near-door
- other personal clutter experiences
- collective ecosystem examples
- things sitting in limbo on dashboard etc
- things in going-upstairs bin that nobody knows whose they are
- desiderata
- avoid having those stuck plans reactivated at moments when you aren't better-equipped to deal with them than when you first got stuck
- both because this will be a drain on your attention
- and because to the extent that it's not a drain on your attention that will be because you've
- avoid putting things in ambiguous situations in the first place, where possible
- eg for things in going-upstairs bin that nobody knows whose they are... could have a protocol of "don't put anything in there unless YOU intend to take it somewhere else later and you know where you're going to take it" or possibly "or unless you're certain whose it is and you know they'll recognize it (eg if someone puts a colorful sweater of mine in there, we can trust I'll grab it)"
- moreover, this second one actually somewhat requires common-knowledge...?
- I guess it doesn't, if people are diligently following the whole protocol
- but if they aren't, then doing this move still adds attention-drain