Performing sort and compression tactics on the mass of stuff. The target is to have less of a hoard and more of a functional space.

Conducive to the process is letting myself be bothered by say, the minutia of stray LEDs in a container of disc capacitors..

..while not being bothered by sifting anything not immediately electronic to a random hardware box that will itself be sifted later.

It's like panning for gold..

..only instead of gold you find rusty paperclips (pro-tip: throw this sort of stuff away).