My 20 year old self would have agreed with you. But you'll have to trust me when I say that as you get older, your perception of time changes drastically.
> What is a definition of “thing that needs attending to” that can sustain a 5-10 year delay?
Unopened mail, things I need to organize in case of a tax audit, broken things I was going to fix, things that simply need to be put away, things I can't decide whether to keep or throw away, etc.
My father's sophisticated organizational method was the "chronological sort", aka the most recent stuff was thrown on top of the pile. The bottom slowly gets compressed into a rock-like substance.
I feel like there’s interesting personal opinion in your comments in this thread, but it’s losing potency because you’re surrounding it in this aura of being older and wiser than anyone else in the thread.
Things like “But you'll have to trust me when I say that as you get older, your perception of time changes drastically” just sound condescending.
> What is a definition of “thing that needs attending to” that can sustain a 5-10 year delay?
Unopened mail, things I need to organize in case of a tax audit, broken things I was going to fix, things that simply need to be put away, things I can't decide whether to keep or throw away, etc.
My father's sophisticated organizational method was the "chronological sort", aka the most recent stuff was thrown on top of the pile. The bottom slowly gets compressed into a rock-like substance.