Just listened to Kelly's talk and picked 'clean my desk' as my stuck project. Started visualizing what 'a clean desk' would look like for me. Turns out it is NOT a clean empty desk -- it is a neat desk containing current and future work that I can easily recognize and find. Books and white papers I am partway through reading or want to read soon -- the current module of the new workshop I am creating -- source material I am drawing from -- mind maps and flow charts pulling together all the pieces -- labs and exercises providing application for what is presented in the slides.
Then John pointed me to the setup guides, and I read Organizing Your Workspace. David's desk is not at all what I envision. I don't see any current or future work on it.
So my question is -- where does current work go? Creating a workshop can take months -- do I really file everything at the end of every day? I would like to come in the next day and pick up where I left off.
Currently, my desk contains piles of papers, and is clearly not optimal. My problem appears to be that I do not know what the desk of a researching author should look like.
Then John pointed me to the setup guides, and I read Organizing Your Workspace. David's desk is not at all what I envision. I don't see any current or future work on it.
So my question is -- where does current work go? Creating a workshop can take months -- do I really file everything at the end of every day? I would like to come in the next day and pick up where I left off.
Currently, my desk contains piles of papers, and is clearly not optimal. My problem appears to be that I do not know what the desk of a researching author should look like.