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Reminds me of how Amazon doesn't arrange its items by similarity like a store does, so a model of vacuum cleaner might be next to a set of kitchen plates. They actually intentionally avoid similarities so pickers won't accidentally grab a similar but wrong thing.

I lose track of so many infrequently used objects in my home -- which storage bin in which closet did I put the x-acto blade refills in? -- and one bin will overflow while another is half-empty because I try to keep similar items together. Sometimes I fantasize about tracking every possession in a spreadsheet that points to which bin, so I'd never lose anything and could always use storage space with maximum efficiency. But then I know I'd be lazy and skip updating the spreadsheet when I put something new away... plus it just seems so inhumanly weird, like something a robot would so rather than a person.






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