I Have a Lot of Digital Clutter

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"I have some sort of internal compulsion to use the stuff that I have," he says. "That's one of the like specific burdens that having a bigger house of stuff has weighed on me, has created" He writes down lots of ideas throughout the day and organizes his files so they can be retrieved later. But when it flips from being this asset that helps you do more into something that stops you from doing as much because you're spending your energy on fostering the thing itself."

Have you ever looked around your home and thought, "Where did all this stuff come from?!"

Cal and Steph are currently going through this exercise, as they go through their first move in years.

It turns out they're not alone in this feeling of overwhelm and is shared by many others who used to be nomads. The need for *things* is universal, but so is the slippery slope to acquiring too many.

In this episode, Cal and Steph explore why weight of stuff – both physically and mentally – and how our decisions are often unconsciously driven by phenomena like the Diderot and Endowment effects. They also explore how our digital lives, although seemingly benign, can also turn into weights on your life and what simple frameworks they're using to change behavior.