Organization? Who needs organization?

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At the most basic level, search tells us that where we place something within a structure isn't important. What is important is whether we have the mechanism for accessing it. Nesting is an organizing principle which has helped us access what we seek. We meet it in the library and in the Yellow Pages, and just about everywhere else. Supermarkets place similar items together on the shelves, though the particular quality of similarity might necessarily be food type. Yes, refrigerated items should be kept with other refrigerated items. That can save quite a bit on the electricity bill. But perhaps similarity of package size might make placement on shelves more logical than similarity of food type. If our search function can find what we're looking for, new and perhaps unexpected logics of placement become possible.

And of course by this point it should be obvious that I've purposefully branched out beyond four layers (in associative writing it can hardly be called nesting). Doing this wouldn't be permitted in a web site organized by usability experts.

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