Part of the reason England look more purposeful than they did at the World Cup is because their players' minds have been decluttered.
For one, the camera UI has been drastically decluttered, leaving only a big blue shutter button, a shooting mode toggle (for bounding from photos to videos to panoramas), and a shortcut for the new radial menu.
One Ikea boss dubbed it "peak curtains" – the realisation that we can no longer carry on buying stuff at the same rate and in the same volume that we did before, and recently there has been a trend for decluttering, thanks to professional organiser Marie Kondo.
The task of decluttering has been helped greatly by "The Hoarder in You," a very practical book by Dr. Robin Zasio, but it is far from over.
Decluttering has been an empowering process for me.
Decluttering has been a way for me to continually ask myself what is important to me in the present.
She has been converted to the "joy-sparking" KonMari method of removing clutter from your life, and our house is now so full of decluttering manuals that we had to move some older books up into the loft.
Motorola's been decluttering for years now — remember the hot mess that was MotoBlur?
There are also services to run errands, put together furniture, fix that one thing in the house you've been meaning to fix, declutter your garage, or any of the other tasks on your list.
"The Lincolns must have been early adopters of the KonMari decluttering method," I said.
Thoreau may not have been talking about cancer when he urged us to declutter, but the words "simplify, simplify" are always swirling in my head.
