June 22, 2004

• The Invisible Room

  
  

  Last year I posted about the messiness of my living room as I rewired it.  I ran all the wiring under the carpet along the baseboards, resulting in an invisibly connected room.  Everything worked the way I wanted, all through a minimally complex set of switches.

  
  

  Now as I pack, I’m unplugging all those wires and realizing how much stuff there was.  The simple clean surface belied the complexity and engineering that went into the infrastructure.  That’s how it is with life.  It takes a lot of work to make it look like no work at all.

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