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You have to actively do stuff to make a house messy, but it can still be impressive when it’s clean.


I find it the opposite. You have to actively clean a house, but do nothing and it won't be clean


"Tidy" may have been a better word than clean.

The natural state of a home is tidy. It was probably empty when the current resident moved in. The natural state of a website is fast. A tiny website can be delivered in one packet.

The home only becomes messy through action. Not intention, but action. Someone has to dirty a dish for there to be dirty dishes. And it's not like you can avoid these activities, that's what a home is for.

It requires a countering action to put things back as they were. So it's action on both sides. Action to make things messy, action to keep things tidy. It's the second action we admire in the tidy home, the fast website.




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