We try to keep apace with Tech in our lives at what expense? I posit that and arithmetic increase in productivity with said device comes at a geometric time investment in learning the unit.
I am aware of bodies that MUST have the must haves in the tech world. Phones, Tabs, GPS, Com units, TV’s, Computers and programs and the like. Now me I want to max out the life and usefulness of any item. At the same time minimize my down time used on upgrading my cognitive balance and understanding and knowledge of anything.
The brain and storage therein are like a pipe: once full, if you continue to put stuff in one end, something has to come out the other. I like to fully mature and milk every last iota outta whatever is in mine before I do a data dump.
Sossa you take the next Gen Phone thingy whatever out of the box. You drag it out after passing all the security questions and devices to hinder pilferage at the retailer’s slack space that have been imbedded in the package. The ON switch is now different, moved, hidden, or better yet, only a virtual switch.
Now ON, you have seventeen security questions, zero of which you have written down the answers to. These are now used for a reboot or battery replacement, or theft recovery situation. Moving on, it asks to transfer any and all information via some virtual magic from any random number of old devices, into this new device. Sillyly you agree and the screen changes and goes into some unstoppable process mystically selecting what and where, which and what, is interred, imbedded, updated, translated, reformatted, or worst, deleted in transfer, from somewhere to someplace.
After the cold sweats stop, and you have attempted through other devices and people and programs to find out what is happening, the process stops and some new foreign screen appears. Ah Ha Moment! Great I have a new thingy! As you stare at the new Home Screen in awe.
Seventeen starving hours later you open your first App. The friendly touchy feely, beautiful shiny new device goes Black Screen. It asks for a password which was one of the security questions when you initially turn the device on. It needs this to update the App! Having not written these down, you try a couple. ZZZZAAAAPPPPP! The screen reduces to an ever-reducing screen shot getting smaller and smaller……fade to black.
On-line on another thingy, the Googler says you need to call tech to get a restart. In the back of you mind you KNOW they are going to ask you those seventeen security questions.
Now once the lovely new device is up and running 3 days later. Each time you open an App it asks to update and you finally realize even the time cost in updating, is not worth the time to invest in that.
Milk it till it pooches puppies. There is no getting the unproductive time of the learning curve back. It’s called a curve because its geometric in the time it takes to execute. Your usage is measured in straight time, hence arithmetic.
Make it with some milk Martha, foam it a bit too.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land, and for some, from The Dark Side. Not am Main nor ab der Elba, but down the Donau, and with Turkish Chai. #garagelurker2019, also A.C
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