You Are Your Workspace

The stuff on your desk affects the ideas you come up with, now more than ever

Jacqueline Detwiler
Forge
Published in
9 min readOct 23, 2020

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Messy desk with old-school desktop computer with post-its on it.
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Every time I interview someone for a story, I spend half the interview not looking at their face. Instead, I look around them, surreptitiously collecting data from the objects in their workspace. I did this before Zoom, in real life, and now I do it through our little internet windows into each…

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Jacqueline Detwiler
Forge
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Jacqui is the former articles editor at Popular Mechanics. Her work has appeared in Wired, Esquire, Men’s Health, and Best American Science and Nature Writing.