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Not chaos — just a filing system only one brain on Earth understands.

means The state of being disorganized or messy, especially in a way that lacks visible order to anyone else.

from Built from 'tidy,' which first meant 'timely' or 'in season' — from Middle English 'tidy,' rooted in 'tide,' meaning time. Something tidy was originally something well-timed or seasonable; the sense drifted to mean 'neat, orderly' by the 1700s, since being in good order was linked to being properly timed. Add the negating 'un-' and the noun-forming '-ness,' and you get the state of being untimely in the oldest sense — and chaotic in the modern one.

correlation
messy desks linked to higher creativity in studies
illusion
tidy rooms often just hide the mess in drawers
threshold
what's clutter to one person is inventory to another
entropy
physics guarantees it; cleaning is just a delay tactic
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