Tech Simple

I have been in so-called high-tech for more than 25 years, and I’ve worked with labor and time-saving software and hardware—and I’ve wasted a lot of time, too, often laboring long days and weeks with little to show for it outside of that ephemeral favorite, the wisdom of experience.

This blog is my celebration of the adage: Keep it simple, stupid. I intend to apply this discipline to technical challenges low and high, in a way that's both clear and entertaining.

We all have to find ways not only to understand the technology that surrounds us, but to bend it to our will, to be masters of our time and talent, and protect our most valuable asset: our time.

Welcome to you, I hope you find the information I post here useful.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Note-Taking

It is not true that you remember everything, or even that good ideas invariably resurface when they’re due and may be safely ignored when they first occur to you. Fact is, a new idea appears under a unique set of circumstances which never occur again, and an idea that’s ignored is as likely to vanish without a trace left in your memory.

Okay, I don’t know for sure this is a fact, but it seems reasonable to me. And I’m retaining far more information since I started taking note of my Big Ideas.

But who wants to lug around a notebook? I mean, a paper journal—leave your computer at home. I carry a rugged but ultra-thin and pliable pad, a Moleskin Cahier Pocket Ruled Journal :

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