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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I organize my collection via emergent ontology.
This just means you let stuff just add on the pile, right?
That, and I occasionally pull things out of the pile then put them back on top, so they slowly organically sort into having the most frequently used things on top. I also have multiple piles that organically evolve into specializations. For example, I never intended to have a "old specialized cables" pile, but it emerged from the bottom of the "old hardware I seldom use" when I transplanted all the top stuff into a new discrete "electronics I might salvage someday" pile. It's not a good system 🙃
Yeah.... That sounds like neither a collection nor a hoard but just a...
Pile of stuff.
Only you can prevent your pile of stuff from becoming a hoard, keep on subdividing those piles.
Ah a fellow electronics I might salvage someday collector! They call us hoarders but one day we’ll replace those faulty caps / learn to micro solder / source a very specific and difficult to find component and then oh boy will we have saved the cost of replacing that thing that we’ve done without for the last several years!