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"Stuff"

This post was written by Chuck Newton: "I know of what I speak. I have been fighting against my tendency to clutter all of my life. I think it might be in our DNA. It certainly represents our mind's eye. My mind is still a very cluttered place. I have come to accept my cluttered mind, but I have reached the point where I seek to avoid the chains of the cluttered World. We really have to resist because in the Third Wave there is no reason to hoard.

We now talk in terms of being untethered or wireless. But, the truth of the matter is that stuff is now what binds us to a place, a time, a way of thought. It is what makes us inflexible. It is what makes drives us broke.

It binds because we need offices and storage places for our stuff, and transportation to move and get to our stuff, and people to manage our stuff, and management of the people that manage our stuff, and all of this cost money..."

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Source: Chuck Newton Rides the Third Wave, 6 May 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).