Property and Organization

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Artist/Author: The Honorable Dr.⁹ Mattanaw, Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh, Retired

Interdisciplinarian with Immeasurable Intelligence. Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.⁶

• Masters Business & Economics, Harvard University, Studies Completed
• Attorney, Pro Se, Litigation, Trial, Depositions, Contracts (E.g. State of Alaska v. Pugh, et. al., Alaska Superior and Supreme Courts)⁴
• B.S. Psychology, University of Maryland, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude¹
• B.S. Computer & Information Science, University of Maryland, 3.91, Magna Cum Laude²
• B.A. Philosophy, University of Maryland.³
• G.E.D., State of Maryland, Montgomery County, 1999.
• Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community, Mensa Lifetime Member

Former Chief Architect, Adobe Systems

Current President/Advisor, Social Architects and Economists International.

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Contact:

• cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu
• christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org
• mattanaw@mattanaw.org

Resumé

• Professional Resumé

Edit History

• 786 Wanattomians, Epoch 1790382915, Friday, September 25, 2026 17:35:15, United States of America
  • Updating to Listing All Of One’s Property and Recalling All The Property Mnemonically
• Tuesday, June 22^nd, 2022, at 10:04 AM Alaska Time

Contents

• Edit History
• Introduction
• Listing All Of One’s Property and Recalling All The Property Mnemonically

Introduction

A current objective regarding property and organization that is nearly complete is to reduce my possessions until all my property is easily managed and there is relative unconcern about what happens to anything I own.

There are some possessions I care for more than others, particularly my writings and productions, and photographs collected over the years. For a very long time I’ve worked on software and an organization approach to making sure that my files are easily located, are backed up, and are publicly available, which means they are also easily available to myself in the same way they are available to everyone else. For example, much of the materials I’m wanting to keep is on this website or is located on my web server. These materials are also meticulously backed up and organized on my own storage media, using an approach that requried my expertise in software architecture and system design.

Other interests in property related to the quality of the property and limitations on spending to ensure that property only includes items worth having, and little that is superfluous. Since I was a young child it was natural for me to want possessions that were higher in cost and higher in value, because these possessions were ones I knew would be of lasting interest and quality, and not things that would be discarded quickly. When I was young I wanted, for gifts, presents that were large and fewer in number, that would provide interest and satisfaction for a longer period of time. For example, I wanted gaming systems, electronics like a television, stereo systems of good quality, and other items that are not at all like toys. Toys, by comparison, are used very briefly, are cheaper so can be purchased in greater quantity, and are thrown away after a short period because of lost interest. There is also a juvenile/puerile component to buying toys that have very limited utility, and continuous use of such toys, or products, probably indicates lower intelligence. A more intelligent approach to procurement does seem to indicate that higher priced, higher value products are superior to lower price, lower quality products, as long as that extra spending does not go towards luxury, and towards actual value.

Frugality, ease of organization, and maintenance allow for extra funds and energy to be applied to other activities and things that are of higher value. Most do not enjoy being disorganized, or having a weak control over the preservation of property, and of not having savings because of excess expenditure.

This category has reduced priority now that I am semi-retired and am in a solid state regarding possessions. There are few things I need, and most is completely paid for. However, I do have a need, which is somewhat new, to rely on possessions I already have, rather than procuring new possessions, to fulfill certain goals and to complete certain projects. I have, after attaining a certain level of income, moved out from my earlier more frugal spending habits to being more inclined to browse and shop as a way of spending my time, and of preferring to purchase than to think about how my existing possessions allow me to do what is required.

As with the other sections in the personal form, there are few areas of great importance concerning property, and few rules to create and internalize, to really get it correct. I will record here my new reduced focus on property which will be useful to my own development and discipline. It is hoped that these same focal points may support others in coming to a point of completion or fulfillment regarding their own property too.

Listing All Of One’s Property and Recalling All The Property Mnemonically

Enjoyment of materialism is not something that is objectionable universally for anyone wanting to live an ethical life, and furthering that goal by having plenty of enjoyable possessions, artifacts, and things to enhance and enjoy personal experiences. There are life strategies that can be very effective at enhancing experience and increasing excellences by including extensive materialistic actions. Knowing this, I wouldn’t tell anyone that they are immoral as some religions do, if they enjoy or have possessions. There have to be other reasons related to materialistic acquisitiveness and property ownership to make one immoral apart from simply buying and having things, and buying and having things can be part of a strategy of moral superiority. For my lifestyle though, the strategy I was wanting was one that was extremely organized, enabled travel, and was able to incorporate each individual thing owned in daily or near-daily activities. This latter goal is a more recent one, that is a progression on increased removal of things I did not use, to have only with me the things I did, such that eventually I wanted only things that furthered my interests and behaviors and were not items in disuse. Today I have a minimalist mentality that still wants to enjoy nicer possessions, but to focus on value and fewness of items, and luxuries when the luxury serves financial goals that may arise.

This approach to possessions is consistent with a travel lifestyle and a lifestyle of hiking and camping. A hiker and camper, and sometimes a traveler, doesn’t want to carry volumes and weights that are inclusive of items that do not do anything helpful. When one starts hiking, camping, and traveling, one almost always brings too much, having some ignorance as to what one’s behavior really is, involving how one really uses possessions. Later, with experience, one starts to learn much more about what one does and what one is willing to value given costs of moving thigns around. This takes longer than expected to really get it to the point one really finds satisfying and not irritating in a variety of ways. This process of trying to decide upon what one wants, what one does really, and how one’s possessions fit in, strategically, is not really too dissimilar, from figuring out what household items one wants. “How do I know what to buy and not buy? Will I use this or not? Will I have too many things if I need to move to a new home? Will it be too much work and will I need assistance? Does this favor good behavior, or does it somehow block my moral behavior progress? In other words, does it reduce my ability to meet my goals? Does this really satisfy me and create enjoyment?”

This amounts to “What do I want, what do I do really, and how do my possisions fit into these things”. “How does my property fit into my moral strategy and when will I have a decision strategy and approach that is consistently satisfying, serving my interests, and helping me fulfill goals of excellence I have.” “How do they make me have a happier more satisfying life, given costs, and how do I value these items?”

The property I carry with me while I travel is now a list of possessions I use for sure, and if it is an item I’m not sure about, an exception, it is part of a project I have, for which the cost of carrying it is worth it, given the probability I’ll do something with it, to further my goal. For this to be possible, each and every piece of property has to fullfill certain criteria:

• Does it integrate with automated habits I’ve built from self-training of moral process? (In my case, from the Attention Management Process and earlier work).
  • This amounts to saying, do I know I’ll use it because it blends with my life, and is in a way, an extension of my thinking?
• Does it further goals of excellences including enjoyment relating to the process and my behavior?
  • Do I value it enough in my moral process to keep it included? Does it relate to goals I have and not only habits?
• Is it consistent with an ultralight lifestyle of travel, and the ratio of perceived value to mass/volume high enough to justify?
  • This is a rule I have for myself, that whatever I carry, has to be something I can both camp with, and utilize in a normal hotel to hotel style of travel.
• Does it expand my list of items to too many things to recall easily given my memory constraints?
  • Am I able to stay organized mentally, which implies I’m more able to stay organized physically with the possessions, if I have this item, or do I have too many things, or is this item too complex for me?

There are other criteria I can probably think of later, but these are some key ones.

Once one has fulfilled these criteria as a traveler or as a property owner, one can list, in a communication that is oral, diagrammatic, textual, or some other format, what that property is, which means one has the property memorized, and can self-demonstrate that memorization outwardly with potential utility. One can quickly write down a plain list, or make a data table, of all one own’s quickly, and use that for planning in some way. Also, one is also sometimes not too aware of how those items really fit into daily behavior, because it blends to an extent that, one doesn’t monitor the usage in a detailed way all the time, even while one is much better at doing this than others. The process of action is complex enough, that once the property fits into the process daily, one is doing too many things with all those items to really articular with ease comprehensively everything one is doing, but one can do so well nevertheless. It is much easier to know the list things one has, and how they roughly fit into activities, than how they really fit into one’s behavior in actuality.

This is a consequence of advancement of organization and fulfilling the above criteria. How good is one at saying how one behaves? That is another part of organization, being really mindful and cognizant, of what one does. It’s not easy. Once property is known well and is integrated with behavior extensively the property becomes part of the behavior of the self that is hard to be fully aware about and explain. This happens as one blends more with possessions, and as one gets much better at explaining this blend and what one does with the property, just not in great detail, all the ways it fits with personal behavior in one’s routine actions. It is very complex.

The property I have for most of my life now, with me as I do the things I do, is a list I can quickly communicate. I know where they go in my travel bag, and how they fit into my travel strategy, and how they fit into miscellaneous activities, and where I use the property. I can estimate the value to weight vaguely but efficaciously. I can state how they relate to my moral process and objectives towards self-enjoyment and personal growth of various excellences. The result is that my possession are integrated individually and in an itemized way with my habit and action and moral process, and ethical strategy known in advance.

Here is the current list of this property:

• Bags
  • REI Gold 55 Liter Ultralight Backpack, with padding and extra pockets, fabric stripped for lightness.
  • Sea to Summit Dry Bag with Sling as lighter day pack.
  • Concealable travel neck wallet/bag.
• Camp
  • Outdoor Research Helium Bivy UL
  • Nemo Tensor Elite Mummy Sleeping Pad
  • Sea To Summit 35 Degree Sleeping Bag
  • Inexpensive Headlamp
  • 5200mah Lithium Ion Batter
  • 3x 100mah Lithium Ion Lipo batteries
  • 1 compact lifestraw water filter with plunger for maintenance
  • 2 vials of water purification tablets, one for purification, one for taste correction.
• Compute and Electronic
  • 1 raspberry pi zero 2w computer in enclosure with 2.8” waveshare display
  • 1 raspberry pi zero 2w backup computer
  • 1 protoarc bifold bluetooth keyboard
  • M5STack Cardputer Advanced
  • 2x DFPlayer Mini Player of my own development
  • One corded headphones
  • 1 Steel Samsung Bar 256GB USB Drive Bakup
  • ~9 Microsd cards
  • 5 Microcenter 32GB USB Drives with website backups
  • Motog 2024 Cell Phone
  • IphoneX backup older gen cellphone
  • 2 Microphone modules, RODE brand, one receiver, one transmitter.
  • 2 mini cameras, one serving the purpose of charger for small lipo batteries.
• Writing
  • 1 small compact notebook, non ruled
  • 1 small compact notebook, line ruled
  • Perma pen and pencil kit, ultralight
    • 1/2 ounce silver kookabura Perth Mint Australian silver coin for writing silverpoint
    • ~2 10H Graphite Pencils (ultrahard for durability)
    • 1 6H Graphite Pencil
    • 2 ballpoint pen inserts taken from pen case (plain disposable ballpoint pens)
    • .03 Filament Tip Artists Pen
    • 1 Gel Rollerball pen for writing on body instead of paper (more ultralight)
    • 6 chrome silver style small bindder clips (for making compact notebooks)
    • 1 eraser
• Security
  • One gel pepperspray pink (temporary before flying when I dispose of it. For extra safety as a pedestrian).
  • 3 ankle wallets, 1 to 2 for immediate use, 1 as a backup because they deteriorate.
    
• Money/ID
  • Cards and cash in multiple currencies.
  • Passport, ID cards.
• Cables, Peripherals
  • I can list, but it’s not worth it here. A small list of cables, sd card readers, computer “dongles”, charger/transformers, and so on.
• Stuff Sacks
  • 45L compression sack
  • 5L compression sack
  • 3L compression sack
• Accoutrements
  • Stainless Steel Chronographic Watch
  • White baseball cap, generic
• Clothes
  • 1 pair wool socks
  • 3 pairs comfortable synthetic blend socks
  • Two pairs of lightweight black shorts
  • One pair red shorts
  • Two pairs of underwear, light black travel synthetic sporty boxer briefs
  • Four T-shirts including one wool base layer T
  • One long sleeve wool base layer shirt
  • One 3/4 length base layer pants
• Shoes
  • One pair of black treadsafe running style shoes

Very easily I recall all these items, and know very well how they fit into my plans, but the possessions are on me, blend with my actions, and are obscurely harder to talk about with regard to all the ways they fit with my brain’s activity and development, even though I can say much more about that than most, if not anyone really!

Still, within this, there is more to do, because there are items within items. For example, within my computer I carry with me, is my software and my files, which have a specific architecture, which I can list out, also according to itemized objects. The “digital objects” are also very important, and one can have many more digital objects than physical objects and I do have more of these than physical objects. I can easily articulate the organization, but admittedly, the I cannot itemize all of 50-60,000 files. I can recall many of these items extremely well though, particularly by category.

There were the very smallest number of items I was uncertain about being in the process of making changes for an upcoming trip, and also the set of possessions that I’m less detailed about but can list with more difficulty in storage, comprising less integral items for my life process, since I’m infrequently near them for use. There is a strategy for these items too consistent with the total approach above, divided from the group of posessions that are always on my person, versus available only 10% of the time.

Resume.