234. Tidiness
In the new year, many will try to develop habits of keeping their homes & workspaces tidy, but maybe their longing for uncluttered space is driven more by a set of cultural biases than any sort of practical advantage.
Links for the Curious
There’s magic in mess: why you should embrace a disorderly desk | Financial Times -
https://www.ft.com/content/e6f82da0-8...
The character, value, and management of personal paper archives (Whittaker & Hirschberg, 2001) - https://sites.google.com/site/minks00...
It’s Here Somewhere: The Effects of Storage Methods on Job Performance (Herman Miller, 2008) - https://sof328.com/ResearchSummaries/...
Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness? Clean And Dirty Metaphors In English And Serbian (Pavlović, 2011) - https://belgrade-bells.fil.bg.ac.rs/i...
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong – Joel Spolsky - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/0...
Why Cleaning Matters: 3 Reasons to Keep Your Workplace Tidy - https://www.trinet.com/insights/why-c...
10 reasons why having your house tidy improves your life | SZS Cleaning Company - https://szscleaning.com/10-reasons-wh...
Unfuck Your Habitat, a non-judgmental self-help system for people who would like to live a little less cluttered - https://www.unfuckyourhabitat.com/ (Thanks Kelly!)