Many startups begin in unconventional places—garages, coffee shops, coworking spaces. Mine started in my home office, in the slivers of time I could find outside of my full-time job. Early mornings, ...

It’s come to my attention over the years that some of us are neat, and some of us — i.e., me — are decidedly not. The neat people tend to see non-neatness as a moral failing; cleanliness is next to ...