{"id":472,"date":"2002-03-20T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2002-03-20T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/20\/im-organized-really\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:39:24","slug":"im-organized-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/20\/im-organized-really\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m organized, really"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16374,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/printable\\\/?critics\\\/020325crbo_books&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/printable\\\/?critics\\\/020325crbo_books&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Equal parts fascinating and reassuring:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The messy desk is not necessarily a sign of disorganization. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?critics\/020325crbo_books\" title=\"Makes me feel better about my workspace, that's for sure!\">It may be a sign of complexity<\/a>: those who deal with many unresolved ideas simultaneously cannot sort and file the papers on their desks, because they haven&#8217;t yet sorted and filed the ideas in their head. [Many people] use the papers on their desks as contextual cues to &#8220;recover a complex set of threads without difficulty and delay&#8221; when they come in on a Monday morning, or after their work has been interrupted by a phone call. What we see when we look at the piles on our desks is, in a sense, the contents of our brains.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The messy desk is not necessarily a sign of disorganization. It may be a sign of complexity: those who deal with many unresolved ideas simultaneously cannot sort and file the papers on their desks, because they haven&#8217;t yet sorted and filed the ideas in their head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}