Clutter? Why remove the clutter? If I remove the clutter, I will simply go looking for more clutter. My desk being cluttered, I can concentrate on the code I write.

What is clutter? Do the 4 yo-yos on my desk count as clutter? I call them meditation aids, to occupy the hands so that the mind may be unfettered. The same to be said of the many toys which litter my desk.

Is clutter the NTI switch on my desktop? But how better to put a real keyboard ( ie, Sun Type 5 ) onto a PC so I may type correctly, instead of shouting at my editor because some useless git has decided the CAPLOCKS key needs to be where the CONTROL key really belongs?

Clutter is camouflage of the best type. Somebody who has a clean desk obviously does not have enough to do and the managers, team leads and users will find more to be done. Thus, even the items without obvious use become useful to me.

Clutter is that which allows me to study the ways of Perl without interuption. mikfire

In reply to Re: A Meditation on a Monk's place of toil by mikfire
in thread A Meditation on a Monk's place of toil by dws

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