Comment by verytrivial
5 days ago
I still tidy my house using the Settlers resource movement algorithm, moving things closer towards where they need to be even if they don't go all the way to their final destination.
5 days ago
I still tidy my house using the Settlers resource movement algorithm, moving things closer towards where they need to be even if they don't go all the way to their final destination.
I'm like this too. It's an incremental system that given enough time converges on the tidy state. I can take something to the foot of the stairs that I know needs to go up there, and then when I later go upstairs I can deposit at the top of the stairs, then when I'm accessing the linen closet I'll glance over and be like oh yeah, some of those items belong in here, I'll put them away now and get the others later. In some ways it's a permission structure to do part of a task without feeling like you're now chained to completely finishing it before you can do anything else.
This all drove my ex nuts though; from her perspective the whole thing was an exercise in deck-chair rearrangement that only served to increase overall entropy while in the intermediate states.
Mis en place meets procrastination
Hilariously, I don't cook like that at all. Cooking for me is all about chasing the critical path— get the water boiling, get the stove on, get the yeast foaming, get the butter softening on a plate. I wouldn't have the patience to line up little dishes of measured-out ingredients on my countertop before beginning to combine things.