The notion I raised yesterday of the tidy desk leading to tidiness and clarity of thought proved illusory: when a project is still at the complex and messy stage, when meetings and calls result in more questions and tasks than in decisions taken, a little stretch of blank desk between me and the screen really doesn’t help at all.
Indeed, I think I should fill a little of that space again with a jotter pad and a pen for scribbling key words and ideas that I can’t be discussing and minuting at the same time.
It is, however, nicer to approach in the morning, so there is that, for those couple of minutes before I’m fully logged in.
