Well in theory acquiring knowledge and skills doesn't impact the "scales" in practice it's possible to become attached to acquiring knowledge and skills in a "grasping" way too. To acquire them for the sake of having them, to satisfy a craving. I've been doing that with digital media, and I may end up self imposing a limit there too. Maybe 1 TB?
As I get older, I realize more and more that "you can have anything you want, but you can't have everything you want." In that sense "worth the money," "30kg," and "1 TB" are all ways to get you to prioritise. To think about what really matters to you and in that sense they're all helpful ways of thinking about your "things." -- Charles On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 at 00:53 Dave Long <dave.l...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > > My partner Debbie and I have 30kg of stuff. > > > That's a handy constraint, in that you both can acquire arbitrary > amounts of knowledge and skills without any impact on the scales. > > Riffing off of Aristippus' advice to give one's children the sort of > assets which would swim out of a shipwreck with them, and the > original blog post's mention of books, I'd say (having learned the > hard way myself) that for disciplines which are difficult to learn > from books, it's worth paying more for better teachers. > > -Dave > > >
