The map and the flight arc really are beautiful... Have fun in Germany this week for all of us who can't make it.

@eli @colinwalker Discovery is certainly a difficult issue. Perhaps we could talk Kevin and Tantek into reconstituting Technorati?! :)

Interestingly this is the third time I've heard about webrings in the last month, and only after serendipitously coming across the only one I'd seen in over a decade or more: https://hotlinewebring.club/

Kevin Marks started a table of "Lost Infrastructure" not too long ago: http://indieweb.org/lost_infrastructure

@EatPodcast If you've not come across it, the Atlas of Economic Complexity may be an interesting tool for you: http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/

I suspect that this is just what happens when you put your potato farm right next to a golf pitching range (or have a disgruntled neighbor who chips golf balls into your potato patch). If you've ever seen mechanized potato harvesters, they aren't too different from golf ball pickers (http://www.rangeservant.us/golf-ball-pickers) except perhaps in size.

I suppose the secret is to have an extra level of quality control for removing the small, hard white "potatoes" with uniform dimples. You'd think they'd do this for rocks and other random debris too, but obviously not?

I saw your note in the chat last night and had a good laugh as I feel exactly the same way though I suspect that instead of 10, it's sometimes more like 15.

I suspect that I'm still spending far too much time fiddling with WordPress on the small niceties particularly with regard to syndication, so before jumping ship, just remember: "the grass is always greener..."

I do like the subtle overhaul of the CSS and typography!

I think her most valuable thesis is really the "only keep things which spark joy in you." I suspect that I'm just as messy/untidy as you are (perhaps worse) in terms of having things everywhere and not necessarily putting them away. The difference with her "method" is that you've first gotten rid of a magnitude of order of junk. Thus the new "mess" that surrounds you (even when things haven't been put away) is at least the things that bring you joy and make you happy. She does discuss in that one portion you mentioned that tiding up your own space first will likely help to encourage those around you to do the same--that old "lead by example" chestnut.

Another aspect of her thesis, which I haven't seen laid out anywhere else, is that it dovetails somewhat with some of the GTD (Getting Things Done) and Bullet Journal philosophies which tell you to write everything you need to do down on a piece of paper. This helps to keep your mind clearer of all the minutiae you might otherwise try to hang on to (and typically forget), but still know in the back of your mind that you're forgetting to do something, but aren't sure what. Kondo's piece helps you clear the physical clutter (compared with the mental clutter) out of your life.

Of course it all sounds lovely on paper. We'll see what it looks like a few days, weeks, months hence... I will happily report that after donating away a lot of clothes and refolding things, I've got several additional empty drawers which I can put tsundoku into.

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I'm thinking it's odd that with comments and marginalia off, one would go to somewhere like Twitter to read the commentary there. I've been considering turning off comments myself, but am considering keeping webmentions which typically have a higher level of thought and quality because people are required to write and post on their own site to send them.