28th Dec 2006
God Bless Mess
Great piece in the Times today basically saying, as the coffee mug adage has long held, a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.
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.
Of course, I knew this years ago having read Malcom Gladwell’s excellent New Yorker piece “The Social Life of Paper.”
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