This Edge.org piece reminds me of Paul Graham&#x27;s 2007 essay &quot;Stuff:&quot; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;stuff.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;stuff.html</a>:<p><i>I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyone is so poor that they can&#x27;t afford a front yard full of old cars.</i><p>Having too much stuff makes a person a good candidate to dematerialize some of it. Indeed, this year&#x27;s weird It Book, <i>The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing</i> by Marie Kondo, can be read as a how-to guide for dematerializing one&#x27;s stuff.<p>Perhaps taking books, music, and videos online means that one trades physical clutter for intellectual clutter. But the intellectual clutter is at least searchable.