Minimalism
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- Environment Design Environment design is arranging a room so that the arrangement settles part of the decision about what to do next. The method has two moves, and both are
- Exit Strategy For Objects An exit strategy is a decided way for an object to leave: used up, returned, sold, given away, or discarded. The exit is decided before the object is allowed
- Minimalism as Systems Design Hub for environmental systems design. The real cost of possessions is attention, space, maintenance, friction, and life constraints. Reduce what is owned
- Minimalism, Condensed The minimalism pages stated as rules: maintenance attention is the limiting resource, owning an object costs more than its purchase price, empty space is room
- Ownership Cost Ownership cost is everything an object keeps costing after it is paid for: the space it occupies, the cleaning and setup it needs, the attention it draws, the
- Product Reduction Product Reduction is one pass over one zone. Every object in the zone is gathered into one place, so the full amount owned can be seen. What stays is chosen by
- Wanting Less The spending side of minimalism: most acquisition is identity-signalling, seeing the motive removes much of the spending, and owning less converts directly