Usually if I’m going to do some linkwrapping and point you to an article, I want to show you the original. Even if I’ve read about it somewhere else, I believe I should tell you that yet point you at the original. Not this time.

This time, the original I can get to is a bit too carefully academic and dry for me whereas a piece I came across on the way is much better:

In the dystopian future, there will only be two tribes: those with messy desks and those with orderly ones. The messy desk people will live unhealthy and inefficient lives but come up with interesting new ideas. The organized desk people will be fit and get all their work done. At least, that’s one possibility if the results of a new study hold up.

That’s from something called Healthland Time. No clue. But of all the messy vs tidy desk arguments, I am persuaded by this one. Read the whole thing and follow its links out to the original academic research work here.