Thursday, January 04, 2007 AD
As I've always said, "A tidy desk is the sign of a tidy mind - and who the heck wants a tidy mind"? So I was delighted to read the following from the NYT:
HT: Alastair.
Update: DS Ketelby (whose excellent recent post on "when atheists attack" is well worth reading) emails me to point out this mini-review of a book called A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, in which:
An anti-anticlutter movement is afoot, one that says yes to mess and urges you to embrace your disorder. Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat “office landscapes”) and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier counterparts. It’s a movement that confirms what you have known, deep down, all along: really neat people are not avatars of the good life; they are humorless and inflexible prigs, and have way too much time on their hands.Amen! Amen! Amen!
HT: Alastair.
Update: DS Ketelby (whose excellent recent post on "when atheists attack" is well worth reading) emails me to point out this mini-review of a book called A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, in which:
...the authors conclude that there is an ideal level of messiness that makes any system more robust and productive.A good reminder that disorder can go too far. What we are looking for, people, is a Golden Mean of Clutter.
Labels: clutter, golden mean, productivity, the good life
