I know I need to go through all of those boxes of paper in my apartment. Each box is the product of a kind of mental laziness.<\/p>\n
Rather than sort through everything, and make difficult choices about what to keep and what to throw away, it’s so much easier just to sweep it all into a large cardboard box. But sooner or later the day of reckoning arrives, and I need to sort through those boxes and make some hard decisions.<\/p>\n
I always find this difficult because there is a finality to throwing something away. Once something is gone, it’s gone.<\/p>\n
In order to ease the stress of what would otherwise be a mentally taxing task, I’ve decided to upgrade my terminology. I no longer think in terms of throwing things away.<\/p>\n
Instead I have opted to draw upon the gentler language of our modern cyber age. What I am really doing, I now know, is moving things into write-only memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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