Joni Mitchell is a famously creative person. But she is also meticulously organized: her house is filled with “custom-designed, special-purpose drawers,” each of which is devoted to a particular type of object—one for Scotch tape, a different one for masking tape, one for string, another for light bulbs. “I don’t want to waste energy looking for things,” she…
Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson is the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds
for the Better (Penguin, 2013) and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and Wired.