Have any of you read The Myth of the Paperless Office?
Here's an interesting article that sums it up pretty well
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/boo...0325crbo_books
Quote:
Kidd writes that many of the people she talked to use the papers on their desks as contextual cues to "recover a complex set of threads without difficulty and delay" 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.
