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The Washington Post wants me to do a deep clean of my entire house, and this is what's wrong with the media today.

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The Washington Post wants me to do a deep clean of my entire house, and this is what's wrong with the media today.

John Birmingham
Jan 4
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The Washington Post wants me to do a deep clean of my entire house, and this is what's wrong with the media today.

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Twelve simple hacks to declutter your life, they said. Take control of your new year and your existence, they promised. Great, I thought. Sounds good. Minimal effort for maximum pay off. My kinda listicle.

But the first suggestion was to execute a maximum Covid style deep clean of your entire house at which point I almost stopped reading.

Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Not much of a life hack, either. More of your major life change, I would’ve thought.

But further down the page I did see a suggestion to tidy up my bedside table to remove a constant source of visible stress from the end of my day.

Hmm. Fair enough. That might actually help.

But I’m not cleaning the house. Not until I get deeper into some impossible deadline.

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