When they were smaller, you didn’t know you were having them. When you started using chat, you didn’t realize how much faster and simpler they made your life. The first time you had a call with more than two people you marveled at how much you got done in such a short time. When you got together to discuss a topic, a point, a problem – you didn’t need to write copious notes and have…
I do everything by way of the Internet. Very little I do does not require the cloud or internet or need to be synced up once back online. Writing Blogs, Writing Articles, connecting to cloud services, writing code, combing discussion forums, finding inspiration, all of it – requires a connection. Going offline is not as easy as it once was where I could take a high-powered laptop, load it up with Virtual Images, and work…
Writing everything down makes any problem easier. I don’t know what our brains were designed for, but when it comes to writing down thoughts, ideas, concepts, blog ideas, stories, books, articles, plays, coding ideas, dilemmas, etc, etc. They improve 1000x once I write it down, it’s as though I’ve offloaded the thought of the problem to somewhere else, and now I start working on the problem at hand. (Also a great way to remember things).
You only have the solution to the problem when you see all the angles to the problem. And you only see all the angles to the problem when you admit you don’t know everything and you need to figure out a different way to make it work. Seeing all the angles starts with admitting you don’t have the answer.
Our footprints are bigger than they need to be. We have accounts all over the place now, we don’t even know what they are for anymore. How many times have you gone to a site for a new account and been told “there is already an account for this email”? You don’t need more and more accounts and products to get better. You need to focus on the ones you have, or switch to ones…