Some random thoughts I jotted down on my iPad with iA Writer while on my flight from Oakland back to Orange County:

All things are temporary

All tools, places, homes, things and life situations are temporary. Perhaps +1 for the notion of just getting economical, “cheap”, value-oriented things. For example, just buying the cheapest nonstick frying pan on Amazon instead of the expensive Le Cruset, etc.

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COMPUTERS ARE USELESS WITHOUT THE INTERNET

Or in other words, in praise of the power of the internet:

ALL MERINO WOOL EVERYTHING.

Materials over brands. Brands you once considered cool can become lame and played out, and vice versa. Even the lame things and brands can become cool (Crocs).

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NO ATTACHMENT OR GUILT OVER STUFF.

Don’t feel sunk cost bias when giving something away, selling something, or messing up some sort of order or concept you had about your stuff. Even the concept of “minimalism” is a cage. Don’t hold strongly to any convictions— all convictions are a prison.

Feel free to change, edit, remix, or slightly adapt your lifestyle and approach to the task at hand. Being a childless digital nomad (this lifestyle) will change vastly once you get a kid, and at the same time, you don’t need to force yourself to change for the sake of it (in order to become a “good” parent).

Perhaps +1 to the argument of getting cheap stuff is that you don’t become attached to it — you can dispose it whenever, with no guilt. But once you got good things, you become trapped by your things. Remember the saying —

The more things which you own, the more things own you.

Also don’t forget that once you get something, even though it is “perfect”, there will always be a hidden cost to that ownership (stress, care, concern, maintenance, cleaning, storage, selling it, etc)