People who keep a tidy desk but a chaotic email inbox aren't disorganized — they're managing what other people can see and letting the invisible stuff pile up because nobody is grading it

It's 9:58 a.m. and Marcus is sweeping a tangle of charger cables, a half-eaten granola bar, and three notebooks into the bottom drawer of his desk. The Zoom call starts in two minutes. By 9:59 the ...