New Level of Detail Has Been Discovered!

"The Onion" just published a hilarious fake news article that I thought you would enjoy (if you have never read The Onion, be aware that some of their other fake news content is potentially offensive):

Researchers Discover Details Smaller Than Minutiae

PASADENA, CA—A team of Caltech scientists announced Monday that they have discovered a type of conversational detail smaller than minutiae, the class of particulars long thought to be the smallest possible building blocks of mundanity. "These tiny sub-minutiae, or 'boredons,' are so insignificant that they contain almost no information, useless or otherwise," said head researcher Dr. Nathan Yang, adding that the conversationally inconsequential details naturally occur in elevators and other enclosed spaces containing high concentrations of vaguely familiar acquaintances. "At least six must be combined to make up a detail that even remotely approaches the declarative weight of a triviality, and more than 200 are required to compose a viable trifle." Yang said that the basic unit of tedium remained undiscovered for so long because boredons are instantly forgotten as soon as they are heard.
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This article is talking about conversational details, but it did remind me of a previous post I had written about Micro vs. Macro Organizing. Are you going into the "boredon level" too fast in your organizing projects?  If you are sorting a large room full of inherited stuff and you run into a box with grandma's button collection, are you going to stop and sort out those buttons by color? Or if you are organizing your closet and run into some photos, are you stopping to look at the photos and sort them for a scrapbooking project? Catch yourself doing this... you need to stay on the "macro" level until major visible results are made.

Comment here on YOUR boredon level projects!

Comments

[Ann at One Bag Nation]

I'm totally guilty of micro-organizing, even though I can barely handle "big picture" organizing. I go into some sort of hyper-detail mode, then get frustrated and have to abandon the project altogether . . . or I should say I used to do that. I've gotten a lot better and I'm making progress on my decluttering projects.