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I prefer typing, writing is so slow. And there is also very important aspect to me: when I type I cannot draw anything and that's great because usually I can't decipher drawings I made while writing with pen and paper.
I prefer typing, writing is so slow. And there is also very important aspect to me: when I type I cannot draw anything and that's great because usually I can't decipher drawings I made while writing with pen and paper.
While I agree with this I also find tremendous value sometimes in slowing down, forcing me to think before I write something down exactly because of the high cost of writing. It makes every word more valuable. I can type a lot of junk really really fast...
I prefer typing, writing is so slow. And there is also very important aspect to me: when I type I cannot draw anything and that's great because usually I can't decipher drawings I made while writing with pen and paper.
This is the core idea of stopping and writing. Forcing your brain to slow down to a certain speed so, it focuses whether it likes it or not.
I do the exact same thing as the article suggests and my coworkers sometimes ask why am I doing this.
My brain's brakes malfunction sometimes and this is an external brake to stop and restart gracefully. It works wonders.
In “Personal Dynamic Media.” (1977) Kay, Alan and Goldberg described a computer as a meta medium: a medium that can 'fake' other media (my synopsis). I think we are always aware of this when working digitally. There is something in us that is aware of the essentially ethereal nature of the digital. I'm not sure that is the right word though.
do people use whiteboards at home?
Earlier I used to have a massive one in the bedroom, because my brain starts kicking in its last ounce of ideas and gotchas just as I'm falling asleep. My wife soon got rid of that and now I have it in my study room.
I love pen/paper, whiteboards, and writing.
My favourite is to start typing the question in to MS teams/slack and often I have the answer before I finish typing.
Does your organization use both MS teams and Slack? Why do they use both? Does one provide some advantages over another?
My favourite is to start typing the question in to MS teams/slack and often I have the answer before I finish typing.
Does your organization use both MS teams and Slack? Why do they use both? Does one provide some advantages over another?
Now we've migrated from Skype to Teams internally. Groups that originally filled the void with Slack have pretty much continued due to momentum, but those that didn't have picked up Teams pretty enthusiastically. There's not really an advantage to one vs. the other, besides network effects and momentum.
We don't actually have an official Slack org, and but rather a smattering of Slack orgs (some paid, some not). But they're all used outside of the purview of IT, which probably isn't a good thing. Even the paid orgs are just expensed directly by various business teams, rather than centrally managed/invoiced by IT.
One thing of note is that we're an agency (well, a holding company with many agencies), and it's not uncommon for some of our clients to want us to sign into their Slack orgs and use it as a preferred means of communication. So our central IT makes the Slack client available for download, even though we don't have an official Slack org ourselves. This ease of access is probably one reason it started getting used in the first place.
I prefer typing, writing is so slow. And there is also very important aspect to me: when I type I cannot draw anything and that's great because usually I can't decipher drawings I made while writing with pen and paper.
I feel this misses the point. Each has its place: typing is faster for long slabs of linear text; writing is way faster for diagrams and when the physical location of each phrase matters.
> when I type I cannot draw anything and that's great because usually I can't decipher drawings I made while writing with pen and paper.
So try to do it more! I was a management consultant 20 years ago. I still solve problems by grabbing a piece of paper, turning it landscape, and sketching the problem's components and their interrelationships.
Heck, one of the reasons I joined BCG in Australia back in 1996 was their interview used 0.9mm mechanical pencils and high quality sketching pads. The pencil I used back then is beside my computer right now.