I find the concept of Digital Feng Shui proposed by Ian P. Hines to be interesting. I’ve been scrolling Ian’s 44gb up and down for so long and yet I sense that I need some more thoughts to feed my mind with. I’m curious. In his article, Ian adds something really useful to my experience with computers. He reminds me of how good is to have a mindful approach to the reality we live in, by constantly creating fragments of space and time, in which we keep things in order and we stay free from worrying about useless junk.
“Having a 15-month old, my house is rarely, if ever, tidy for more than a few hours at a time. And that’s as it should be. But for peace of mind, I need order—a place for everything, and everything in its place—and it’s on my MacBook that I find it. I keep my drives clean and orderly, my desktop empty, and my windows neatly sorted into 9 distinct Spaces. It’s like digital feng shui.“
Freeing up space in our lives is essential to our overall wellbeing. Everything makes sense within a structured system of information. Be it a computer, be it our life. To this day, to me, digital feng shui is simplifying the digital life and reducing the clutter.
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We need peace of mind for our work to be accomplished,
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we need to find balance to have our thoughts going, and our words flowing.
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We need an extremely satisfying and tidy place in which we know that everything has and is at its place
As Ian says, “a place for everything, and everything in its place”
PS. It was bizarre to notice that digital feng shui can also become digital filing system, or debian from scratch.