tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post3861514869165064569..comments2023-12-20T17:48:18.108-05:00Comments on To Delight and to Instruct: Is a cluttered desk a productive desk?Horacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-49562460946640725252009-03-25T09:06:00.000-04:002009-03-25T09:06:00.000-04:00I always believe that the messiness of my own desk...I always believe that the messiness of my own desk is an index of the amount of stress I feel: and I wish my desk were as tidy as the one in that picture!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11838296548128807890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-48956913485566749712009-03-24T22:07:00.000-04:002009-03-24T22:07:00.000-04:00Totally productive! Look at the notes at the read...Totally productive! Look at the notes at the ready, poised for action. Very nice!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-49426076624901138832009-03-18T22:12:00.000-04:002009-03-18T22:12:00.000-04:00Our poor Horace appears to be the victim of an org...Our poor Horace appears to be the victim of an organized mind, a rare breed of intellectual both creative and comprehensible, both productive and tidy. <BR/><BR/>It's a terrible affliction, and we must send him our most fervent prayers in his time of need. <BR/><BR/>(N.B., however, that those who accuse you of tidiness include, according to their pseudonyms : a mythological figure condemned to eternal torment, a psychotic with a terminal degree, and the personification of folly. You, according to yours, are one of the great luminaries of classical letters. Ergo, well...)moriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12390704103460109691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-913817532320886842009-03-18T22:03:00.000-04:002009-03-18T22:03:00.000-04:00Dude, you don't know from messy. I'll take some p...Dude, you don't know from messy. I'll take some pics of my office desk to show you what messy is, if you don't believe me. And seriously: I don't even have a desk at home: I've got my dining room table, which continues to have a ceramic Christmas tree on it, because I've clearly lost all control. What all of this is to say is that your messy is the tidiest I could ever hope for :)Dr. Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-35729056073665802902009-03-18T21:10:00.000-04:002009-03-18T21:10:00.000-04:00By no stretch of the imagination is that desk anyw...By no stretch of the imagination is that desk anywhere even close to messy.<BR/><BR/>I read a book <A HREF="http://www.aperfectmess.com/" REL="nofollow">A Perfect Mess</A> which basically argued, in favor of the messy desk, that we have gone WAY too far with the clean desk policies and professional organizers and it is stifling creativity and wasting time. Needed some editing, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-30252282059663293542009-03-18T20:03:00.000-04:002009-03-18T20:03:00.000-04:00Pshaw, that's hardly messy at all! You need at lea...Pshaw, that's hardly messy at all! You need at least a half-a-dozen filth packets before you can say it's untidy. <BR/><BR/>And I see my little orange guy right there in the middle of that shelf! Helloooo, walkers in the city!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-232713076161542462009-03-18T19:59:00.000-04:002009-03-18T19:59:00.000-04:00Horace, it looks productive to me, but then it loo...Horace, it looks productive to me, but then it looks eerily like mine, so I have a vested interest in believing that ;-).undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-84620263579903610412009-03-18T19:56:00.000-04:002009-03-18T19:56:00.000-04:00That's actually a pretty tidy desk. :) Good luck ...That's actually a pretty tidy desk. :) Good luck being productive, too!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09150532491859766021noreply@blogger.com