Sat, 2007 Sep 01
Organization
I suppose I should read a book. I mean, I read lot of books. Sometimes on my own, sometimes with my wife. All sort of subjects too, from fiction to…um…non-fiction. Except that I don’t really believe in non-fiction. My wife had a professor who talked about things as “fictions”. That is, if I understand correctly, all of our “knowledge” is really simply fictions on which we base our actions. The point is that I do read books.
I suppose I should read, in particular, a book on organization. Or see a psychiatrist. Probably the latter, come to think of it. But that is not the point. No, the point is to see if I can manage to ramble long enough in order to start writing something genuinely funny. This seems unlikely to me, here, in this second paragraph. The secondary point is a question regarding organization, which I suppose, some book answers rather more concisely than I am asking the question.
Because, hey, where would the twentieth century be without stream-of-conciousness? Over, as it turns out. Actually, over, regardless. Even if you’re an alien many light years away watching Earth’s so-called twentieth century coming to you at the speed of light, it is now, I know since you are reading this, over. Unless Einstein was wrong. Which seems unlikely considering that scientists can’t even decide whether string theory is supposed to be good or bad these days. But relativity? Doing OK.
My question: What are the best methods of organization which retain organization the longest.
I’m something of an obsessive organizing. Excepting, perhaps, in regards to my thought patterns. But I find myself re-organizing far more often than I think I should. In part, I simple enjoy reorganization, be it changing where stuff is in my office, moving folders in my home folder, refactoring code, etc. And yet, I seem, very quickly, to find disorganized what once had seemed quite clean and simple.
Perhaps part of what I miss is actually completing the organization project. That is, as I approach completion, my interest in the project tends to drop exponentially, so that I probably never actually complete a re-organization project. I suppose, like I said, there’s some books out there. In the mean time, it’s a subject to ponder. And about which to ramble.
Yep, this article was pointless. Oh, well…
