Right now, AT home, I've got my office down to a lamp, an iMac, an iPhone and - currently - a few copies of Bon Appetit from which I've been meaning to tear out recipes and chuck out. It's an agreeable arrangement. The computer has no tower, plus a wireless trackpad and keyboard which can be stashed in a drawer. The phone follows me around, so it's often just the monitor and the lamp - minimalism of which Steve Jobs would be proud. Actually... a 2004 picture of Jobs' home office by Time photographer Diana Walker reveals a reassuringly human level of desk mess. But with the way Jobs' Apple and the other big hardware firms have reduced the amount of stuff we need to operate at work, we've got no excuse for mess.
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