I started this site to help people — including myself — who want to make their technology work for them, instead of the user tying themselves in knots working for their technology.
Because I don’t know what you, the reader, are trying to accomplish or what particular piece of technology you’re using, I’ll mostly be writing in first person. I’ll tell you what I did and how I look at things, and if it’s helpful to you that’s great. I’m not an expert and I’m not claiming to be an expert. I’m someone who might be a couple of steps ahead of you, and maybe something I write will be of use to you.
Today’s post is about mindset. I have met very few people — only one or two — who can read through an instruction manual for a piece of technology and immediately start thinking of all the things it would be possible to do with most of the options.
For myself, who does not have that gushing internal fountain of creativity, I’ve started to discipline myself to have a goal and a motive for any piece of technology I want to use. If I don’t have a goal, then my efforts are all over the place and lack focus, I flip through a manual restlessly and poke buttons without really taking the time to see what a button actually does. If I don’t have a motive, I get bored and move on to something else.
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