<story><title>Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform</title><url>https://www.shitbowl.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a shirt is a shirt, shorts are shorts. When you have a stack of freshly washed clothes, sorting them according to type is so trivial it is a thoughtless process.&lt;p&gt;However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes pile, the clothes organizer must think of how this particular piece of cloth is used. Is this just an old t-shirt? Or is this particular old t-shirt out of favor with my husband and so he uses it for his workout? Or should it go in the pyjama t-shirts pile?&lt;p&gt;So writes seem to be much more costly (cognitively) when organizing clothes according to usage rather than type (if these clothes are not your own in which case determining their usage does seem trivial), and your wife may be optimizing for it (again, see initial assumption)</text></item><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval.&lt;p&gt;For example - my wife likes &amp;quot;shorts&amp;quot; to be in one drawer and &amp;quot;t-shirts&amp;quot; in another. I like for one drawer to be &amp;quot;workout clothes&amp;quot; and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels &amp;quot;obviously&amp;quot; right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly &amp;quot;open drawer&amp;quot; IOs?&lt;p&gt;Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don&amp;#x27;t mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each &amp;quot;write&amp;quot; costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare.&lt;p&gt;Anyone else like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taniwha</author><text>I think that if you want your own classification you have to put away your own laundry ...</text></comment>
<story><title>Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform</title><url>https://www.shitbowl.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a shirt is a shirt, shorts are shorts. When you have a stack of freshly washed clothes, sorting them according to type is so trivial it is a thoughtless process.&lt;p&gt;However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes pile, the clothes organizer must think of how this particular piece of cloth is used. Is this just an old t-shirt? Or is this particular old t-shirt out of favor with my husband and so he uses it for his workout? Or should it go in the pyjama t-shirts pile?&lt;p&gt;So writes seem to be much more costly (cognitively) when organizing clothes according to usage rather than type (if these clothes are not your own in which case determining their usage does seem trivial), and your wife may be optimizing for it (again, see initial assumption)</text></item><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval.&lt;p&gt;For example - my wife likes &amp;quot;shorts&amp;quot; to be in one drawer and &amp;quot;t-shirts&amp;quot; in another. I like for one drawer to be &amp;quot;workout clothes&amp;quot; and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels &amp;quot;obviously&amp;quot; right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly &amp;quot;open drawer&amp;quot; IOs?&lt;p&gt;Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don&amp;#x27;t mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each &amp;quot;write&amp;quot; costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare.&lt;p&gt;Anyone else like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaboud</author><text>Personal optimization schemes fall apart when we have to interoperate with others, just like in system architectures.&lt;p&gt;Think about the cognitive load of your spouse when you decide how a system should work.</text></comment>