Comments on: Show us your workspace… http://nigelbeale.com/2008/06/show-us-your-workspace/ Musings on the Book, Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the Arts, and Audio Interviews from The Biblio File radio program pertaining to same by a writer, broadcaster, bibliophile. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:52:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jake http://nigelbeale.com/2008/06/show-us-your-workspace/comment-page-1/#comment-46337 Jake Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:30:45 +0000 http://nigelbeale.com/?p=968#comment-46337 I just put before and after shots on flickr and also posted an image with more detailed explanations on <a href="http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/new-workspace/" rel="nofollow">The Story's Story</a>. Although I'm not freakishly organized like the <a href="http://www.43folders.com/" rel="nofollow">43 Folders</a> people, whose methods seem appropriate to those striving to take over the world, my desk is reasonably neat in part because I think Paul Graham has a point in <a href="http://paulgraham.com/stuff.html" rel="nofollow">this essay</a>: <blockquote>And unless you're extremely organized, a house full of stuff can be very depressing. A cluttered room saps one's spirits. One reason, obviously, is that there's less room for people in a room full of stuff. But there's more going on than that. I think humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model of what's around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally exhausting.</blockquote> Things—usually books, but sometimes <a href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=128" rel="nofollow">kipple</a>—have a way of accumulating despite my best effort, however, so the new picture is still somewhat unusual for its cleanliness.   I just put before and after shots on flickr and also posted an image with more detailed explanations on The Story’s Story. Although I’m not freakishly organized like the 43 Folders people, whose methods seem appropriate to those striving to take over the world, my desk is reasonably neat in part because I think Paul Graham has a point in this essay: 
And unless you’re extremely organized, a house full of stuff can be very depressing. A cluttered room saps one’s spirits. One reason, obviously, is that there’s less room for people in a room full of stuff. But there’s more going on than that. I think humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model of what’s around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally exhausting.

 Things—usually books, but sometimes kipple—have a way of accumulating despite my best effort, however, so the new picture is still somewhat unusual for its cleanliness.  

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