i have bad organizational skills

i never really did.

as luck would have it i stayed late at work yesterday creating a "Trello board". i'm much better organized at work than in the rest of my life.

i have a theory that all human culture is essentially an effort to make up for the fact that people are terrible at remembering anything

ppl operate at about 30% efficiency and yknow thank fuck for that

So you never got that palm pilot?

I have fantastic organizational skills which, unfortunately, are not recognizable as such by pretty much anyone else in the world. C'est la vie!

Socrates: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To them came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them. He enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts. But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

Thamus otm.

It used to drive my study partners nuts that I doodled instead of taking notes in class but I was always able to recall the details of some illuminated manuscript the professor had been droning on about while I had been busily drawing the leg erupting from this comical fellow's mouth.

Likewise, what may appear to you an indiscriminate pile is in fact an intentional construct whose every sedimentary layer I would be happy to detail 4 u.

i have better organizational skills than like 99% of everyone I know, and I'm actually a shitty person, so these things must correlate, so don't feel bad

Other ppl trying to impose THEIR organization system on ME is not cool. My program manager (who is not exactly my boss but is my client/overlord) is trying to make me use MS OneNote and I'm like lady I'm forty five fucking years old and have well honed workplace organizational skills, I never lose or forget anything work related ever, gtfo outta here with this "OneNote"

^^^ I heard my last department head was very critical of people who had nothing on their desks because of optics. My desk and inbox were always completely clear, but I put an empty notebook and a stack of policies on it to satisfy onlookers that I was doing work.

Likewise, what may appear to you an indiscriminate pile is in fact an intentional construct whose every sedimentary layer I would be happy to detail 4 u.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4hYtwGFlI