{"id":31709,"date":"2019-02-04T04:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31709"},"modified":"2019-02-04T04:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:23:44","slug":"marie-kondo-tries-to-get-my-digital-life-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31709","title":{"rendered":"Marie Kondo tries to get my digital life in order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>On a recent Saturday morning, while my wife and infant slept in their peaceful, newly uncluttered rooms, I opened my laptop, clicked &#8220;select all,&#8221; and looked at the frightening total.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">I knew it would be bad. I didn&#8217;t realize &#8220;bad&#8221; meant there would be 27,897 files<strong> <\/strong>on my computer. Almost immediately, my resolve to get my digital life in order weakened. Then I heard Marie Kondo&#8217;s voice in my head &#8212; or more accurately, in my inbox.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The biggest mistake with digital tidying is focusing too much on what to discard,&#8221; Kondo wrote me in an e-mail earlier that week, by way of a translator, by way of a publicist, by way of a naive hope that a Netflix star could rescue an overtired new parent from being buried alive in his own digital clutter.  The focus, she told me, should be on &#8220;what&#8217;s valuable to you and on what you want to keep in your life.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)On a recent Saturday morning, while my wife and infant slept in their peaceful, newly uncluttered rooms, I opened my laptop, clicked &#8220;select all,&#8221; and looked at the frightening total.I knew it would be bad. I didn&#8217;t realize &#8220;bad&#8221; meant there would be 27,897 files on my computer. Almost immediately, my resolve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}