"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"-Albert Einstein. I think the topic of information overload is separate from a messy desk. The university of Minnesota did a study and found that "messy desk" people came up with solutions that were more creative and interesting. Historically it has been known that most great thinkers have "messy desks", and now the research backs that up. Information overload can happen just from reviewing too much social media, no desk needed. Social media now is full, unfortunately, of opinions parading as fact that can obfuscate ones path towards understanding a topic. Then there are those who don't require any facts or information to live their life, actually reject facts and information, yet have profoundly deep opinions that they act on, which is worse.
@@spacedtime6597 Opinions are an assessment, which is how we think and feel about things like facts, stories, furniture, the house we looked at earlier today... or even what we think or feel about a blatant lie. Mundane example: It's snowing outside. That could be a fact on a particular day. But my opinion of it, "Oh look how pretty. I love snow" doesn't cloud or obscure in any way, the fact that it's snowing. Lies aren't opinions. They are lies. So unfortunately that's where the assessment has to come in from the one being told the lie.
@@spacedtime6597 About opinions:. It brings me back to my referring to hemorrhoids earlier today on this post about piles. 😬. Opinions are like.... buttholes. Everybody has one 😱 True 😉 Pardon me. I just farted. Also true 🤣 I hope anyone who reads this thinks I'm as funny as I do. 🤷
Sounds exactly like me! I've just been diagnosed ADHD so this is likely the reason for my own. I've started piles..the piles then duplicate. It started with 'to do' and 'done' and quickly becomes 'to do' 'slightly done' 'more done' 'half done' etc etc haha.
I was diagnosed at 47 years old. Now, 52, everything makes sense. I heard that there are two kinds of people:. Filers and Pilers. Creative people are Pilers. 😉
Yeah I have ADHD like symptoms and low severity OCD, so I'm always just feeling emotionally inundated because they both are in constant conflict with each other... "to do lists" are helpful though (especially if you make them a day or two before) and so is a good label maker and filing system. Anyways luck to all of us in this age of information overload 🤣🙏
@@CALIGRL888 I think adhd and ocd are often associated with eachother. I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive overcompensatory tendencies also haha. I guess having a brain which is always on means we also struggle not to get stuck in repetitive thoughts etc.
What a coincidence that you posted this video today. Just yesterday I printed out a photo of Einstein & his famous quote that Nancy mentioned in a separate comment. I did this to show to my wife & kids as some attempt at vindication for my messy desk. As a consequence of the quarantine situation and working from home for 6 months, our dining room table has also become desk, and the mess has migrated there too.
By 2006, I turned my file cabinets into.......a place to store all my snacks in the office. The popularity of the PDF format meant we seldom used paper anymore. No more distribution of binders of information......you sent out an electronic copy and everybody displayed on their laptops. The problem however, with so many snacks.....is you get fat. Actually, the office mess just migrated to the virtual world. With Terabytes of old data cluttering our computers. Nobody really deletes anything.
My desk looks very similar to your desk! And if most people would see my desk, they would probably gasp! But I'm ok with it. I don't trust people with spotless desks. I have a mind that never stops. When I was working, I could juggle 20 tasks at one time and do them well. I do find now, if I want to do some art, I need to select a single project and clear the desk. Art ideas will explode my mind if I'm thinking about too many techniques and/or supplies. On a side note: The guy in your video could use a good secretary. Secretary is a dirty word now, but it is how I earned my living for the most part. I may not keep my desk clean, but I sure could keep my bosses organized. There was a joke that if my boss was on a business trip in say Thailand, I'd be able to track him down even if he was in a smoky bar in some hidden alley. And this was before cell phones! He liked it that way. It was a team effort.
The problem is there are so many different things to keep in a small area. If you count everything, there may be hundreds of items. Your desk seems to be like a functioning workstation. It reminds me of an office i would see in the back of factories or repair shops. You have plenty of shelves which seem to be labeled and a place for everything. It looks like you have an overflow kind of area beneath the window where everything is stacked up. For me tidiness is a never ending mainly losing battle. In an emergency I just stack things up and tidy around the stacks. Sometimes there does seem to be too much information and i think do we really need to everything. Its nice to have some mystery. Thanks for letting us see inside your office. It has now been observed by many.
"this man's words changed the world forever" - eh maybe ill watch... "I found the philosopher's stone." - warmer... "is your desk a mess" - YES. MUST WATCH. 11/10 lol
G'day David, I just love where you're head goes! The title of the subject here is well let's face it not a riveting one but boy oh boy you made it a piece that grabs you! "Organised Chaos" I refer to my desk as! 😜 👌 Happy Days and God Bless ♥️
Years ago I worked for a clean desk freak. I could not figure out how he did it. Until I walked into his office when he was sweeping everything into the waste basket. This guy was legendary for tearing people up for not getting information to him. And the dumb ones sent him originals. Without keeping copies. Then you would get dressed down for not sending him originals. He did not do it on a regular basis so you could time when to get paperwork to him. It was beyond frustrating one of the reasons I wound up leaving his asylum. Today, my office is a twin cab pickup. The cab is packed with tools, paperwork, filing boxes, printer and communication tools. I can be 15 or 1500 miles from the house and am ready to go to work when I get to a job. My current boss gave me grief about my setup until he sent me to Bakersfield California on a emergency gig and went straight to the worksite and started. Left the worksite in west Texas on a Tuesday evening and started on Friday morning in Bakersfield. All I did was stop by the house, pick up my Bug Out bag, kiss the wife and leave. And my desk at the house(office) looks like my pickup.
That old clip was very eye-opening, that man handles his technology better than me and I was born into it. I haven't used social media since I was 15 because it gave me anxiety attacks, i'm sure if I were born earlier I'd be calling computers the work of the devil lol. Great video!
same here , my desk is messy and I like it that way , but my mother she just want to "clean it up" . Yes , there are time when I too face information overload
As soon as I saw your desk, I knew it was organized to suit you. My desk isn’t. As long as you can find what you need when you need it and as long as you have the space to write that you want, that’s perfect.I enjoy your photographs and your writing. Give my best regards to your kind and patient wife. Have a good day!
I could actually feeeel that man's frustration just talking about his information overloaded situation in fact he has SEVERAL piles of stuff he's currently actively working on. I dont know if anyone else noticed it lol😄 but he seem to have realised it as he was showing what each pile was for. ( ALL TO DO)
My boufriend always refers to my desk as my "filth station" but then again that's probably because of the drink rings on my desk and crumbs on the floor lmao
Love this. My desk is similar to yours, although you can actually SEE parts of your desk. LOL I do know where things are most of the time. It's like my brain takes a snapshot of everything in its place and no one had better dare to move anything around, THEN I can't find things. Don't mess with my piles. :-) My hubby is the complete opposite.
Oh my goodness, going thru my organized at one time in past couple of decades, I find part of a project I was working when my Dad passed. I have a table for my 'projects' and if it becomes to full I make space which at times has its own pitfalls!
Yes!! This is such a good question! And I REALLY LOVEE this blast from the past clips that acre actually from when I was still alive and well 😆.. jk but I really love this things
@@invisiblepinkunicorn7626 I feel extra bad though cause you can tell hes happy to do the interview, but everything else around him is trying to pull him away lol
I really enjoyed this video. My desk is more like yours, Mr. Hoffman. It’s more like style and intellect rather than “information overload.” That gentleman was on the verge of shutting down. I (and I have a feeling, you) just move it along, try to get as much work done knowing it’s not going to happen. In other words, we do our best.
💌 Dear Mr. Hoffman, How did my desk end up in your office❓ I am saving this vid to share with all the peeps who comment on my desk ... the comments are verbatim, all the way down to the dental floss! Thank you for posting so many honest, authentic and inspiring vids. For some unknown algorithm reason your vid of an interview you did with Bill Earhart popped up on my radar tonight. I then watched several more of your posts and became an instant fan. I look forward to watching more and will look for you on patreon. 🙏, CC🤍
The top of my desk is a mess, stuff I need to put away and I know what’s what. My son was shocked at how organized my drawers are, since I’m the most disorganized person he knows. Now if I could just find a paper cutter in my supply cabinet.
You're desk looks better than mine! Hahaha. Actually, this video REALLY helps me feel better. I'm going to show this to my kids as my excuse - I'm information overloaded, that's the truth! P.S. I like your wife's commentary.
I find it’s because my father is laughing in my head when I can’t find some thing I told you to put it back where it belongs and talking about stuff that doesn’t belong in the office in you know what I mean
For 23 years now I’ve worked with NASA engineers, technicians and scientists. Of all, a few very bright minds stand out and they all had disasters for desks/offices. One engineer’s cubicle was such a mess his boss asked him to please “tidy it up” a bit. He never did, he couldn’t. That “mess” was his, and it was a part of his thought process. My desk/office is the opposite; clean and organized. Not sure what that says about folks like us. 🤪
Hello , Andy Rooney did a piece on 20/20 about his office and how messy everybody thought it was . ( 30 years of stacks and piles of endless paper everywhere possible ) . In short he was asked to find his invitation to meet Pope John Paul 11 and a couple of other documents , He found them in a few minutes . Just saying . My office used to look the same and I could find anything I wanted in a matter of minutes . Thanks Dave .
Mine have always been worse than that both at home and at work. But, if someone wants something I can go right to it. I don't lose things. It's poison if someone comes and move things around. My husband loves to move things around. He doesn't get it, but HE can never find anything.
I had to buy another desk and an end table just to have a light (lamp is on the end table) because I ran out of room. I have 4 full sized piano keyboards that I use. So I needed a second desk. I have them side by side, but I am thinking about building something better or redoing everything. I need a studio makeover LOL.
Y desk does not have a computer on it, it is a late medieval antique, and I keep my pens and ink along with writing paper on it. The drawer, on the other hand is a mess with random notes and paper clips etc. It is able to be largely neat because I don’t really work at my desk. I write song lyrics and poetry there as well as drawing jewellery designs and working on the occasional illuminated book. My jeweller’s bench on the other hand is a total mess to anyone looking at it, but I know where every tool, gem, or project is at all times. I avoid information overload by not having a cell phone, and limiting my social media to RUclips. I focus on one task at a time, and give it my full attention during that time. I find I can get a lot accomplished this way.🖤🇨🇦
Just having a desk at home, when you have no desk job, but might have one some day, is a sign....of something. I forgot what. Let me look in a couple piles. I'll come up with it. Thinking of piles, did you know piles is another term for hemorrhoids? You get them from sitting at a desk, with piles. 🤣
It makes me remember the fact that i salvaged 8-9 boxes of comic books/books, and i should consider selling/donating them...one of the boxes i did organize to where theyre "valuable" (limited prints, signed comics, vampire porn/porn in general), so idk maybe a comic book shop can take them?..
Mr. Hoffman would you mind putting a date on the films that you brought on here . I'm fifty one years old and it helps me remember the attitude of that time and further till now. It's just so I can think about the consequences of all this chaos started by this generation of children.. It would help me understand their state of mind and how they made their decisions .
We all have our system. Hey, my wife asked the other day why I have two 3-pound weights there. Hey, I need to gat exercise too ... and used them a couple of times I can remember.
Hey yo David, I got that same ergonomic Logitech mouse. Its from like 2001, or at least mine is. No scroll wheel(garbage). Thing is built like a brick house though. It's about 20 years old and i still never have problems out of it. Also, Kim Jong Un has the same mouse as us. it's featured in a few pictures of him. lol. I guess they haven't updated their tech in about 20 years either. lol anyways, idk, I just keep seeing that mouse in random places and wanted to mention it. lol
I felt for that poor guy. And your desk looks good to me! Mine isn't too bad, it's the electronic organization of tabs and projects that is much messier than my physical space. Also, it was fun to hear your wife "throw some shade" at you. Have you come across that phrase? 😁
I personally don't like messes, but I doubt that that is the crucial thing for most people. It's more about how you conceptualize things in your mind. Do you understand what you're dealing with, and your own methods for handling things? You need to have a system that encompasses everything you do. A system that helps you, rather than just generating more work. And possibly the most important part of your system needs to be what you do to keep improving that system. Things change, and you need to change as this hppens. I'm constantly working toward getting away from paper. It's a long-term process, handled conservatively, but over time I will get there. It's just too hard to do many things with paper. Finding something you have misplaced can be virtually impossible with files full of papers, if you have a lot. The sheer physical size of paper records can be a huge problem. To top it all off, my handwriting sucks, and for that reason and others, I'm progressing relentlessly toward any handwriting in my life whatsoeffenever. If I must use paper, at least it will be printed by a computer-preferably in a typeface that doesn't suck. I feel very confident that time will prove the correctness of my views.
There was a famous guru of analog electronics named Jim Williams of Linear Technology that had a desk so seemingly unbelievably messy that after he passed unexpectedly, they put his desk in the Computer History museum. I have a picture of it next to my desk so that people can see that my desk isn't so bad. organized chaos.... (computerhistory.org/blog/an-analog-life-remembering-jim-williams/)
Moving info from physical media to digital ones would help a great deal. The Internet is an example. We have the entire info of the Internet at our finger tips but we don't feel overwhelmed, because we don't see most of that info unless we retrieve it. Btw, your working space and that guy's looked nowhere nearly as bad as some I've seen. Back in the 90s it was the norm for office space to look like that. Nowadays many computer users store info digitally, so they see less clutter lying around and feel less stressful, even though their computers may have tons more info than 90s users. Nowadays, I think the stress comes from online security, privacy, that kind of thing.
i have a desk that my mom once said was an organised disaster area, and a friend said it was proof of my state of chaotic mind set, me i call it well organised, everything is rightwhere i can find it!
ROFLMAO You have the same trackball I do. I do not understand why people use mice. Their always in a different location. Gotta turn your head to see where it is when you want to use it. One of the buttons is getting wonky though. Should I fix it or buy another one? They make junk these days!
my home desk looks like a nuclear bomb hit it. paper, pc, books, tapes, phone, assorted hardware, big vintage 1951 rca victor am-fm radio,record player on the side,etc piled up, but i can find what i want when i want it. being single helps. no ex-wife on my butt now bitching about my desk appearance to me and others. besides, it's fun to go on an archology hunt for a receipt dated in jan 2020. it's 2/3 rds the way down the pile to date to find same.april 2019 1/5 up from the bottom of the pile.my former girlfriend who died of cancer 3 mths ago loved my home and always said my desk and accumulations gave the home a comfortable "lived in look" that made her feel comfortable also.i didn't do much better at work either on a clean work station. i retired 7 1/2 yrs ago and now have the same cluttered desk and file cabinet. i couldn't function now at all on a "apple pie" neat desk.my kitchen table the same way. cereal, crackers, etc.on one side and my massive vinyl 45 record collection on the other side while i eat at my desk. look at my mouth running here to a long winded comment of my ocd desk keeping.anybody else out there like me ?
Me and my Mother both have ADHD. Try as we might to organize our chaos we are very much of the "out of site, out of mind" camp. My Father cannot understand this mentality "Just put it in a designated folder or shelf and youll know it's always there" No we won't, we'll forget it's there. "Well what's in there right now?" We don't know! That's the point we're trying to make! Lol
You know what they say, creative people have messy desks. The more creative you are the messier your desk is lol. But I feel like information overload these days comes in digitally in the form of emails and computer files. I can tell ya now that my computer is so messy with work files and folders, my computer desktop looks like that man's desk from 1994, but digitally lol.
Who is your owl friend there staring at you?🤣 That other messy desk fellas voice sounds familiar. Who was he? Thx for video. Makes me not feel so bad about my method to my madness 😆
My desk? I only wish it were my desk alone that is messy. Try every surface in my office, including the floor in a couple of places. When someone wants to see my office, I simply tell them to pretend they are looking at "Einstein's Digs". While I do not claim to have his intelligence, I do share what I understand to be his "organizational scheme". I know where everything is, but without my mind you will never find what you are looking for in all this. Interesting thought: The video predated the cellular phone. Imagine where he is now.
😂 I don’t have a desk, we don’t have a desk of our own, we share the charting area (I work in healthcare and we move all over the hospital) but parts of my house looks like a messy desk😂
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"-Albert Einstein. I think the topic of information overload is separate from a messy desk. The university of Minnesota did a study and found that "messy desk" people came up with solutions that were more creative and interesting. Historically it has been known that most great thinkers have "messy desks", and now the research backs that up. Information overload can happen just from reviewing too much social media, no desk needed. Social media now is full, unfortunately, of opinions parading as fact that can obfuscate ones path towards understanding a topic. Then there are those who don't require any facts or information to live their life, actually reject facts and information, yet have profoundly deep opinions that they act on, which is worse.
The perception of reality depends on that who perceives it.
Great comment.
Opinions do get in the way. Make truth cloudy. Where errors and lies can lurk.
@@spacedtime6597 Opinions are an assessment, which is how we think and feel about things like facts, stories, furniture, the house we looked at earlier today... or even what we think or feel about a blatant lie.
Mundane example: It's snowing outside. That could be a fact on a particular day.
But my opinion of it, "Oh look how pretty. I love snow" doesn't cloud or obscure in any way, the fact that it's snowing.
Lies aren't opinions. They are lies. So unfortunately that's where the assessment has to come in from the one being told the lie.
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About opinions:. It brings me back to my referring to hemorrhoids earlier today on this post about piles. 😬. Opinions are like....
buttholes. Everybody has one 😱
True 😉
Pardon me. I just farted.
Also true 🤣
I hope anyone who reads this thinks I'm as funny as I do. 🤷
Sounds exactly like me! I've just been diagnosed ADHD so this is likely the reason for my own. I've started piles..the piles then duplicate. It started with 'to do' and 'done' and quickly becomes 'to do' 'slightly done' 'more done' 'half done' etc etc haha.
BreG I can relate😂
I was diagnosed at 47 years old. Now, 52, everything makes sense. I heard that there are two kinds of people:. Filers and Pilers. Creative people are Pilers. 😉
Yeah I have ADHD like symptoms and low severity OCD, so I'm always just feeling emotionally inundated because they both are in constant conflict with each other... "to do lists" are helpful though (especially if you make them a day or two before) and so is a good label maker and filing system. Anyways luck to all of us in this age of information overload 🤣🙏
@@CALIGRL888 I think adhd and ocd are often associated with eachother. I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive overcompensatory tendencies also haha. I guess having a brain which is always on means we also struggle not to get stuck in repetitive thoughts etc.
The Eisenhower Matrix is a great tool I use to keep track of my task lists and priorities.
That looks like a pretty organized desk, to be honest.
Organised chaos! Nothing wrong with that! My desk is almost empty (Only because I cleaned earlier) but tomorrow it'll be organised chaos again 🥴😂
Dude. This channel is a gem. I never thought I could find such a collection of old footage on a single channel. Thanks for the work man
Thank you for your comment.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
He seems stressed an overwhelmed to me. That being said, I love the time machine that is your channel.
"David Hoffman Asks: Is Your Desk A Mess?"
I read this title and instantly realized how much wisdom this video holds.
I bet you know what every single thing on that desk is and exactly what it's for.
But to another person it looks like chaos!!! 😆
What a coincidence that you posted this video today. Just yesterday I printed out a photo of Einstein & his famous quote that Nancy mentioned in a separate comment. I did this to show to my wife & kids as some attempt at vindication for my messy desk. As a consequence of the quarantine situation and working from home for 6 months, our dining room table has also become desk, and the mess has migrated there too.
Yes I have information overload, and it is one of my biggest problems that I have difficulty explaining to other people.
GREAT INTERVIEW! What he didn't understand, that i realize now, is that we were all going through boot camp prior to 2020. Be well💜🙏
By 2006, I turned my file cabinets into.......a place to store all my snacks in the office. The popularity of the PDF format meant we seldom used paper anymore. No more distribution of binders of information......you sent out an electronic copy and everybody displayed on their laptops. The problem however, with so many snacks.....is you get fat.
Actually, the office mess just migrated to the virtual world. With Terabytes of old data cluttering our computers. Nobody really deletes anything.
My desk looks very similar to your desk! And if most people would see my desk, they would probably gasp! But I'm ok with it. I don't trust people with spotless desks. I have a mind that never stops. When I was working, I could juggle 20 tasks at one time and do them well. I do find now, if I want to do some art, I need to select a single project and clear the desk. Art ideas will explode my mind if I'm thinking about too many techniques and/or supplies. On a side note: The guy in your video could use a good secretary. Secretary is a dirty word now, but it is how I earned my living for the most part. I may not keep my desk clean, but I sure could keep my bosses organized. There was a joke that if my boss was on a business trip in say Thailand, I'd be able to track him down even if he was in a smoky bar in some hidden alley. And this was before cell phones! He liked it that way. It was a team effort.
Greetings from Clay County, Missouri!
Looks a LOT more organized than MY desk! lol
THANKS again, Mr. Hoffman !!! 230 thumbs up! see you tomorrow
Thank you! I can show my husband!! He doesn't understand how creative people sort out stuff!
Omg David!! 😂 you are brilliant!! 🤣
Tully, you make this world a better place 😊
Thank you Kyra.
The problem is there are so many different things to keep in a small area. If you count everything, there may be hundreds of items. Your desk seems to be like a functioning workstation. It reminds me of an office i would see in the back of factories or repair shops. You have plenty of shelves which seem to be labeled and a place for everything. It looks like you have an overflow kind of area beneath the window where everything is stacked up.
For me tidiness is a never ending mainly losing battle. In an emergency I just stack things up and tidy around the stacks.
Sometimes there does seem to be too much information and i think do we really need to everything. Its nice to have some mystery. Thanks for letting us see inside your office. It has now been observed by many.
"this man's words changed the world forever" - eh maybe ill watch...
"I found the philosopher's stone." - warmer...
"is your desk a mess" - YES. MUST WATCH. 11/10 lol
G'day David, I just love where you're head goes! The title of the subject here is well let's face it not a riveting one but boy oh boy you made it a piece that grabs you!
"Organised Chaos" I refer to my desk as! 😜 👌
Happy Days and God Bless ♥️
I love this David. Great post!!
David, thank you for the continual uploads. Your archives are treasures and I love seeing how the days of old can inform the new. 🙏🙏
I wonder if he feels his life is better or worse now, with that room and it's entirety in his back pocket?
Years ago I worked for a clean desk freak. I could not figure out how he did it. Until I walked into his office when he was sweeping everything into the waste basket.
This guy was legendary for tearing people up for not getting information to him. And the dumb ones sent him originals.
Without keeping copies. Then you would get dressed down for not sending him originals.
He did not do it on a regular basis so you could time when to get paperwork to him.
It was beyond frustrating one of the reasons I wound up leaving his asylum.
Today, my office is a twin cab pickup. The cab is packed with tools, paperwork, filing boxes, printer and communication tools. I can be 15 or 1500 miles from the house and am ready to go to work when I get to a job. My current boss gave me grief about my setup until he sent me to Bakersfield California on a emergency gig and went straight to the worksite and started. Left the worksite in west Texas on a Tuesday evening and started on Friday morning in Bakersfield. All I did was stop by the house, pick up my Bug Out bag, kiss the wife and leave.
And my desk at the house(office) looks like my pickup.
I always look forward to your new content can't thank you enough😉
I wish I had a desk. Psyche! Desk? Cubicle?! Death.
Classic video, was this in silicon valley? Be great do find the same guy and do it once again 1994-2020
It sure would be.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Love this video!! Surprisingly funny😆
That old clip was very eye-opening, that man handles his technology better than me and I was born into it. I haven't used social media since I was 15 because it gave me anxiety attacks, i'm sure if I were born earlier I'd be calling computers the work of the devil lol. Great video!
Another insightful and the kind of knowledge a dad bestows on you! Thanks David!
same here , my desk is messy and I like it that way , but my mother she just want to "clean it up"
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Yes , there are time when I too face information overload
🌻David Hoffman🌻 always enjoy watching your videos 🌟Listening from Mass USA🌟Hello🌟 everyone
As soon as I saw your desk, I knew it was organized to suit you. My desk isn’t. As long as you can find what you need when you need it and as long as you have the space to write that you want, that’s perfect.I enjoy your photographs and your writing. Give my best regards to your kind and patient wife. Have a good day!
Every person’s work area, is accustomed to that person, and nothing wrong with it.
That guy looks like Dick Van Dykes’s brother.
Yours is very tidy next to mine!
I could actually feeeel that man's frustration just talking about his information overloaded situation
in fact he has SEVERAL piles of stuff he's currently actively working on. I dont know if anyone else noticed it lol😄 but he seem to have realised it as he was showing what each pile was for. ( ALL TO DO)
My boufriend always refers to my desk as my "filth station" but then again that's probably because of the drink rings on my desk and crumbs on the floor lmao
I honestly love videos like these, where we get to see you and hear your thoughts :)
I'm so glad!
Love this. My desk is similar to yours, although you can actually SEE parts of your desk. LOL I do know where things are most of the time. It's like my brain takes a snapshot of everything in its place and no one had better dare to move anything around, THEN I can't find things. Don't mess with my piles. :-) My hubby is the complete opposite.
Oh my goodness, going thru my organized at one time in past couple of decades, I find part of a project I was working when my Dad passed. I have a table for my 'projects' and if it becomes to full I make space which at times has its own pitfalls!
I've always liked when my desk is messy. It reminds me of how much I'm doing, and how much I'm going to do.
David, you seem like a really neat guy.
Love the vids....keep up the great work!
3:30 "My PC would ring if it could"
Oh poor buddy. You have no idea what's coming. lol
Who is this guy? I'm curious now what kind of work he's doing.
He reminds me of Dick Van Dyke :)
Yes!! This is such a good question!
And I REALLY LOVEE this blast from the past clips that acre actually from when I was still alive and well 😆.. jk but I really love this things
Poor guy. 😂
@@invisiblepinkunicorn7626 I feel extra bad though cause you can tell hes happy to do the interview, but everything else around him is trying to pull him away lol
Why is he not opening a drawer? I know why.
It's all Publisher's Clearing House material. Highly personalized and needs to be burned in the back yard!
I really enjoyed this video. My desk is more like yours, Mr. Hoffman. It’s more like style and intellect rather than “information overload.” That gentleman was on the verge of shutting down. I (and I have a feeling, you) just move it along, try to get as much work done knowing it’s not going to happen. In other words, we do our best.
Oh, and Shanah Tovah, A Healthy New Year.
Handling a messy desk is one of the most erotic things a mind can do.
💌 Dear Mr. Hoffman,
How did my desk end up in your office❓
I am saving this vid to share with all the peeps who comment on my desk ... the comments are verbatim, all the way down to the dental floss!
Thank you for posting so many honest, authentic and inspiring vids.
For some unknown algorithm reason your vid of an interview you did with Bill Earhart popped up on my radar tonight. I then watched several more of your posts and became an instant fan.
I look forward to watching more and will look for you on patreon.
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The top of my desk is a mess, stuff I need to put away and I know what’s what. My son was shocked at how organized my drawers are, since I’m the most disorganized person he knows. Now if I could just find a paper cutter in my supply cabinet.
You're desk looks better than mine! Hahaha. Actually, this video REALLY helps me feel better. I'm going to show this to my kids as my excuse - I'm information overloaded, that's the truth!
P.S. I like your wife's commentary.
The underneath of the desk is more important.
Everything on that man’s desk it’s now all wrapped up in a cell phone.
Coming at you in the year 2021
I find it’s because my father is laughing in my head when I can’t find some thing I told you to put it back where it belongs and talking about stuff that doesn’t belong in the office in you know what I mean
Hahah, that’s perfect. Sounds like a great dad.
For 23 years now I’ve worked with NASA engineers, technicians and scientists. Of all, a few very bright minds stand out and they all had disasters for desks/offices. One engineer’s cubicle was such a mess his boss asked him to please “tidy it up” a bit. He never did, he couldn’t. That “mess” was his, and it was a part of his thought process.
My desk/office is the opposite; clean and organized. Not sure what that says about folks like us. 🤪
Hello , Andy Rooney did a piece on 20/20 about his office and how messy everybody thought it was . ( 30 years of stacks and piles of endless paper everywhere possible ) . In short he was asked to find his invitation to meet Pope John Paul 11 and a couple of other documents , He found them in a few minutes . Just saying . My office used to look the same and I could find anything I wanted in a matter of minutes . Thanks Dave .
Mine have always been worse than that both at home and at work. But, if someone wants something I can go right to it. I don't lose things. It's poison if someone comes and move things around. My husband loves to move things around. He doesn't get it, but HE can never find anything.
I had to buy another desk and an end table just to have a light (lamp is on the end table) because I ran out of room. I have 4 full sized piano keyboards that I use. So I needed a second desk. I have them side by side, but I am thinking about building something better or redoing everything. I need a studio makeover LOL.
Y desk does not have a computer on it, it is a late medieval antique, and I keep my pens and ink along with writing paper on it. The drawer, on the other hand is a mess with random notes and paper clips etc. It is able to be largely neat because I don’t really work at my desk. I write song lyrics and poetry there as well as drawing jewellery designs and working on the occasional illuminated book. My jeweller’s bench on the other hand is a total mess to anyone looking at it, but I know where every tool, gem, or project is at all times.
I avoid information overload by not having a cell phone, and limiting my social media to RUclips. I focus on one task at a time, and give it my full attention during that time. I find I can get a lot accomplished this way.🖤🇨🇦
Just having a desk at home, when you have no desk job, but might have one some day, is a sign....of something. I forgot what. Let me look in a couple piles. I'll come up with it.
Thinking of piles, did you know piles is another term for hemorrhoids? You get them from sitting at a desk, with piles.
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David your desk is just fine and an example of a goodly busy and right on artist that you are yasher koach
It makes me remember the fact that i salvaged 8-9 boxes of comic books/books, and i should consider selling/donating them...one of the boxes i did organize to where theyre "valuable" (limited prints, signed comics, vampire porn/porn in general), so idk maybe a comic book shop can take them?..
My desk and your desk are twins the only difference is yours produces work.
I would say to that guy: "Wait for 2021!"
Believe it. Those days were better.
Mr. Hoffman would you mind putting a date on the films that you brought on here . I'm fifty one years old and it helps me remember the attitude of that time and further till now. It's just so I can think about the consequences of all this chaos started by this generation of children.. It would help me understand their state of mind and how they made their decisions .
I resolved this problem a number of years ago.I got rid of my desk.😎
We all have our system. Hey, my wife asked the other day why I have two 3-pound weights there. Hey, I need to gat exercise too ... and used them a couple of times I can remember.
You know where things are & that's what matters.
I've always thought that less anxious people can get away with this sort of thing. Negative space pacifies the anxious mind.
Hey yo David, I got that same ergonomic Logitech mouse. Its from like 2001, or at least mine is. No scroll wheel(garbage). Thing is built like a brick house though. It's about 20 years old and i still never have problems out of it.
Also, Kim Jong Un has the same mouse as us. it's featured in a few pictures of him. lol. I guess they haven't updated their tech in about 20 years either. lol
anyways, idk, I just keep seeing that mouse in random places and wanted to mention it. lol
WoW 🤣😂🤣
I just love that mouse.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I got this one from my pops, I'm gonna give it to my kid if its lasts that long. Logitech mouse family heirloom. lol
“My phone is ringing and my PC would ring too if it could!”...lol
I felt for that poor guy. And your desk looks good to me! Mine isn't too bad, it's the electronic organization of tabs and projects that is much messier than my physical space. Also, it was fun to hear your wife "throw some shade" at you. Have you come across that phrase? 😁
Aww gosh I wished that was a few minutes longer.
"I never saw that before" haha. I identify with that.
I personally don't like messes, but I doubt that that is the crucial thing for most people. It's more about how you conceptualize things in your mind. Do you understand what you're dealing with, and your own methods for handling things?
You need to have a system that encompasses everything you do. A system that helps you, rather than just generating more work. And possibly the most important part of your system needs to be what you do to keep improving that system. Things change, and you need to change as this hppens.
I'm constantly working toward getting away from paper. It's a long-term process, handled conservatively, but over time I will get there. It's just too hard to do many things with paper. Finding something you have misplaced can be virtually impossible with files full of papers, if you have a lot. The sheer physical size of paper records can be a huge problem. To top it all off, my handwriting sucks, and for that reason and others, I'm progressing relentlessly toward any handwriting in my life whatsoeffenever. If I must use paper, at least it will be printed by a computer-preferably in a typeface that doesn't suck.
I feel very confident that time will prove the correctness of my views.
My desk looks like the wreck of the Hesperus.
There was a famous guru of analog electronics named Jim Williams of Linear Technology that had a desk so seemingly unbelievably messy that after he passed unexpectedly, they put his desk in the Computer History museum. I have a picture of it next to my desk so that people can see that my desk isn't so bad. organized chaos.... (computerhistory.org/blog/an-analog-life-remembering-jim-williams/)
Moving info from physical media to digital ones would help a great deal. The Internet is an example. We have the entire info of the Internet at our finger tips but we don't feel overwhelmed, because we don't see most of that info unless we retrieve it. Btw, your working space and that guy's looked nowhere nearly as bad as some I've seen. Back in the 90s it was the norm for office space to look like that. Nowadays many computer users store info digitally, so they see less clutter lying around and feel less stressful, even though their computers may have tons more info than 90s users. Nowadays, I think the stress comes from online security, privacy, that kind of thing.
I like your vid. They show a area of quality. People, style.....
Damnit David you've done it again
I don't know if my desk is a mess because i can't see it under all the rubbish.
The open hand 🖐 says so much. Lol!
i have a desk that my mom once said was an organised disaster area, and a friend said it was proof of my state of chaotic mind set, me i call it well organised, everything is rightwhere i can find it!
Awsome! Best ive seen in a while. Overload man gets mad when organized mess gets cleaned up by gifr
Thank you.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Holy mackerel, i really enjoyed this one!
Excellent video! Organized chaos.
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You have the same trackball I do. I do not understand why people use mice. Their always in a different location. Gotta turn your head to see where it is when you want to use it. One of the buttons is getting wonky though. Should I fix it or buy another one? They make junk these days!
i wonder how much extraneous work related information would just disappear if we redesigned processes of middle management 🤔
I hope this guy found the doctor and medication he needed.
my home desk looks like a nuclear bomb hit it. paper, pc, books, tapes, phone, assorted hardware, big vintage 1951 rca victor am-fm radio,record player on the side,etc piled up, but i can find what i want when i want it. being single helps. no ex-wife on my butt now bitching about my desk appearance to me and others. besides, it's fun to go on an archology hunt for a receipt dated in jan 2020. it's 2/3 rds the way down the pile to date to find same.april 2019 1/5 up from the bottom of the pile.my former girlfriend who died of cancer 3 mths ago loved my home and always said my desk and accumulations gave the home a comfortable "lived in look" that made her feel comfortable also.i didn't do much better at work either on a clean work station. i retired 7 1/2 yrs ago and now have the same cluttered desk and file cabinet. i couldn't function now at all on a "apple pie" neat desk.my kitchen table the same way. cereal, crackers, etc.on one side and my massive vinyl 45 record collection on the other side while i eat at my desk. look at my mouth running here to a long winded comment of my ocd desk keeping.anybody else out there like me ?
Me and my Mother both have ADHD. Try as we might to organize our chaos we are very much of the "out of site, out of mind" camp. My Father cannot understand this mentality
"Just put it in a designated folder or shelf and youll know it's always there"
No we won't, we'll forget it's there.
"Well what's in there right now?"
We don't know! That's the point we're trying to make! Lol
You know what they say, creative people have messy desks. The more creative you are the messier your desk is lol.
But I feel like information overload these days comes in digitally in the form of emails and computer files. I can tell ya now that my computer is so messy with work files and folders, my computer desktop looks like that man's desk from 1994, but digitally lol.
One of my favorite quotes from Einstein: 'If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what then is the sign of an empty desk?'
the sign of a empty desk to me tells me the person at it is brain dead without thought or purpose in life except "making 8" everyday.
Who is your owl friend there staring at you?🤣
That other messy desk fellas voice sounds familiar. Who was he? Thx for video. Makes me not feel so bad about my method to my madness 😆
My desk? I only wish it were my desk alone that is messy. Try every surface in my office, including the floor in a couple of places. When someone wants to see my office, I simply tell them to pretend they are looking at "Einstein's Digs". While I do not claim to have his intelligence, I do share what I understand to be his "organizational scheme". I know where everything is, but without my mind you will never find what you are looking for in all this. Interesting thought: The video predated the cellular phone. Imagine where he is now.
I work at home and mine is a mess but a organized mess :)
"My PC would ring if it could"...well...that has come true no? A little pc which is sometimes used for it's original purpose.
😂 I don’t have a desk, we don’t have a desk of our own, we share the charting area (I work in healthcare and we move all over the hospital) but parts of my house looks like a messy desk😂
Oh this was fun to watch!
My desk is always a little messy.
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Y Pleasure! Be well💜🙏
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Pss I found it! Albert Einstein quote: If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, an empty desk a sign?