A Common Thread

That Which Reaches Our Eyeballs

What do Justin Beiber, messy work-spaces, and Vladimir Putin have in common? No, this isn't a lead-in to a punch line. These are three subjects of news stories that have crossed my eye-line just this morning.

It is amazing the wide variety of reading and news sources that we interact with on a daily basis. Whether you have a news reader on your desktop or phone, if you have a Twitter feed that follows pop culture, or a copy of Rolling Stone magazine, the stories of the day are never far off.

Of the three news stories mentioned in the paragraph above, though, only one is a positive story. Justin Beiber is getting into lots of trouble, and Vladimir Putin is putting much of the eastern European block into an uneasy tension between Russia and the West. War isn't out of the question.

Then there was this Lifehacker story that highlights the creative geniuses of the past and present that kept messy work spaces. Einstein, Zuckerberg, and even the micro-managing Steve Jobs had cluttered desks. The story links to recent findings that showed messy work spaces point to creative minds that don't necessarily follow the status-quo or, you know, "rules."

The Point

The purpose of this post today is to illustrate that fun, interesting news stories provide a needed break from the oppressive onslaught of negative news that reaches our eyeballs every day. I love working with Coffee News because it provides this fun and needed source of fun news to our Omaha area readers.

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