I'm deliberately making some technology changes:
1. I'm cutting back on plastic, and carrying cash. ISTM that losing a few hundred from my pocket would be less painful than having one or more of my cards stolen or cloned. Probably less likely too. This applies especially in filling stations.
2. I'm going back to paper. My 3rd and last Palm is in the desk drawer. I use a small diary/notebook, and indeed the backs of envelopes. This way I don't have shopping lists from last year with me all the time. I have come to realise that's good, and let go.
If I need a reminder (and after years of PDAs my brain has given up on reminding me) I set a task on the moby, with a 1 or 2 word reminder, not a long document describing exactly what I'm going to do.
Time comes, alarm sounds, I do the action and delete the alarm. Gone for ever.
3. I'm going back to voice. The phone gets you to a human, who can often help you better than the website.
If I can't get to a human, or only to a call centre that acts like a sadistic sociological experiment, I don't deal with the company.
Next: I'll stop wasting my life on stupid bulletin boards. OK, soon, not yet.
1. I'm cutting back on plastic, and carrying cash. ISTM that losing a few hundred from my pocket would be less painful than having one or more of my cards stolen or cloned. Probably less likely too. This applies especially in filling stations.
2. I'm going back to paper. My 3rd and last Palm is in the desk drawer. I use a small diary/notebook, and indeed the backs of envelopes. This way I don't have shopping lists from last year with me all the time. I have come to realise that's good, and let go.
If I need a reminder (and after years of PDAs my brain has given up on reminding me) I set a task on the moby, with a 1 or 2 word reminder, not a long document describing exactly what I'm going to do.
Time comes, alarm sounds, I do the action and delete the alarm. Gone for ever.
3. I'm going back to voice. The phone gets you to a human, who can often help you better than the website.
If I can't get to a human, or only to a call centre that acts like a sadistic sociological experiment, I don't deal with the company.
Next: I'll stop wasting my life on stupid bulletin boards. OK, soon, not yet.
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