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Poll: Is your personal workflow organization style "out of sight" (everything tucked away in folders etc with a clean desktop/zeroed inbox as the ideal) or everything "in sight" as one big sprawl you can touch/scan all the time?
  • Only active work in sight
    30.8%
  • Only recent items in sigh
    23.9%
  • Everything alwys in sight
    25.4%
  • Clean-up only for guests
    19.9%
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you might want to analyze the personality/psychology of these 2 styles... I have a lazy hypothesis of ENTP/Js vs. INTPs/Js I'm testing here... but it feels like there's a more general thing going on
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There's a big caching/working-memory metaphor angle here as well as a stress/relaxation angle. I'm mostly out-of-sight, but under either high stress or high relaxation, I can handle everything sprawled out.
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High stress = lost an important document, I'll be willing to pull everything out of folders/files and spread it around looking Low stress = I'm enjoying myself going throw a collection of some sort
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I think there's an anti-correlation to how you process "difficult conversations." Out-of-sight people tend to nibble away at difficult conversations one step at a time, while in-sight people tend to repress it all and periodically blow up and process outside. cc
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The style also relates to content area. In areas where I'm relaxed and have room to spread out, I tend to end up with a nicely organized multi-level caching system that's really efficient and productive. For stress-inducing areas, yeah, it piles up in dark chaotic corners.
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