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There's some commonality here between this sort of "worse is better" and the observation that a meticulously neat and tidy, fastidiously clean {desk, notetaking system, editor configuration, ...} is a good indicator that its owner doesn't do anything worthwhile with it.

The real world is messy. Things that come into contact with the real world will acquire a little bit of wear and mess. If it's all still brilliantly clean and tidy, you can't have done anything useful yet!




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