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.
There’s magic in mess: why you should embrace a disorderly desk | Financial Times - https://www.ft.com/content/e6f82da0-8b4d-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1
The character, value, and management of personal paper archives (Whittaker & Hirschberg, 2001) - https://sites.google.com/site/minks0008/3.pdf
It’s Here Somewhere: The Effects of Storage Methods on Job Performance (Herman Miller, 2008) - https://sof328.com/ResearchSummaries/wp_Here_Somewhere.pdf
Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness? Clean And Dirty Metaphors In English And Serbian (Pavlović, 2011) - https://belgrade-bells.fil.bg.ac.rs/index.php/belgrade-bells/article/download/bells-2012-4-2/74
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong – Joel Spolsky - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/
Why Cleaning Matters: 3 Reasons to Keep Your Workplace Tidy - https://www.trinet.com/insights/why-cleaning-matters-3-reasons-to-keep-your-workplace-tidy
| 10 reasons why having your house tidy improves your life | SZS Cleaning Company - https://szscleaning.com/10-reasons-why-having-your-house-tidy-improves-your-life/ |
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!)