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King of Your Things

March 25th, 2008

If, in the near-future, you don’t have to worry about your things, how will that make you feel?

To start, I wonder who nowadays doesn’t have to worry about where his things are.

The President. George W. Bush doesn’t have to worry about keeping track of his things. He has a battalion of aids, assistants, and secret service agents bounding around and worrying about his stuff for him. They do this so he can focus on his job, not on managing his personal effects. So, can your self-sufficient stuff make you feel presidential? Would you want to feel that like the president? I know many people certainly don’t want to feel like George W… maybe JFK…

I started thinking about whether or not this will become a new phenomenon. It won’t. There have always been those who didn’t have to worry about their things. They’re called Kings. The difference between kings and their relationship with their things and the near-future us and our relationship with our things is that kings had throngs of servants. What will be handled entirely by my messenger bag and its network, 2000 years ago

Don’t be a slave to your stuff… be the King of Your Things!

With this mindset, look inside your closet and see your kingdom. It’s just waiting to be ruled. Again, this returns to my fascination with your schema of yourself as a miniature economy. All of your belonging are assets on your distinctive balance sheet (or in your personal kingdom). All of your actions are also assets.

Everything you do is valuable, it’s all a matter of making it into something tangible.

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