on stuff - by Julian Baker - Consume & Enjoy
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"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1 Oct 2022 | Issue 35 I moved house this week. So I know exactly how much stuff I have. Having arrived two years ago holding two suitcases each, I watched a removal van packed full to the brim's worth of objects drive away. So I also know exactly how much stuff one can accumulate without effort, rather quickly. So I now live in cardboard world. Misshapen cardboard box world. Due to "the flood". My friend Ollie sent me an extreme weather warning. The one thing about the sleepy island I live on is, apart from guaranteeing nothing happens, that the weather will follow its daily pattern of…
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