I’m on BBC News today. I started a little project last year to slowly rid myself of everything I owned. I called it Cult of Less. I indexed everything I had and then put it up for sale. It made moving to New York much easier. I also find myself less stressed.

I might not be as extreme as a few other folks out there, like David Karp, but owning less is a great thing to do. It’s easier than ever to replace these book and movie things with their digital analogs (see what I did there?). I realize the lifestyle isn’t for everyone—there’s still the physicality of a “real book” that is sometimes nice.

Hope you enjoy the piece and let me know what you think!

Obligatory Updates:

• Boing Boing picked up the story. Cool!
• Hacker News likes it too. Well, some of the commenters.
• Reddit likes it, with expectedly hilarious comments.
• Thx 4 the luv, HIPSTERRUNOFF.
• I was featured on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald. Oy!
• MetaFilter has a huge thread about it.
• Jezebel has some nice things to say.
• I stopped by for a short interview on The Takeaway, a morning radio show on WNYC.
• Der Spiegel und ERF haben uber Cult of Less geschrieben. Toll!
• I contributed a follow-up interview with the BBC Radio Programme “Digital Planet.”
• FOLHA (a newspaper in Brazil) did a piece on the project. They also included a diagram of my room.
• CNN Money did a piece on the project.
• NBC Nightly News covered the project in a series they did. (Unfortunately, their news clips “expire” on Hulu.)