The myth of the perfect, clean workspace

Maybe one of the biggest problems with the internet is we post what we think we see and then cite ourselves as the evidence that that thing is reality.

It’s Not ‘Mess.’ It’s Creativity.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

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Kurt Vonnegut,

Mother Night

Anne Helen Petersen has written about the “professionalization” of homes, thanks to the “market-reflected gaze,” and I think that this extends to the creative space as well—we base our expectations of our creative spaces not off of how we work best, but what we think creative spaces should look like. That clean and organized aesthetic also... See more