The Minimalists Podcast Transcripts
Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus, T.K. Coleman · 162 episodes with transcripts
The Minimalists are Emmy-nominated Netflix stars and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. Alongside cohost T.K. Coleman, they help millions of people live meaningful lives with less.
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The Collection
October 5, 2026
Joshua Fields Millburn (0:39)
Yes, The Minimalists, Joshua Fields Millburn here, TK. Coleman. Here's something to chew on.
A collection is intentional. An accumulation is accidental. Now, I almost said incidental because I wanted to play around with the alliteration and I wanted to iterate on the alliteration.
T.K. Coleman (1:14)
So that's an interesting follow because when you compare collection and accumulation, I thought you were going to ask me to expound on the difference between those two. But collection and curation are a little bit closer to each other, whereas neither of those things are accidental. So I see collection as gathering…
And I see curation as something like the process of organizing, simplifying, and presenting that which has been gathered with a sense of aesthetic intelligence.
Joshua Fields Millburn (1:50)
Yes. Yeah. Professor Shahn was saying that a museum curates their collection. And I think that's a good distinction, a way to look at it here, because when I go to a museum, the vast majority of their art is not on display.
Their collection is stored, but the curated piece that we see is usually a show. It's what is on display, what we put out, what we have visible. And I do think it's possible for, depending on how we use the term, it's possible for a collection to be unintentional. If we're just going around collecting sticks and…
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