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technology overload?
glitch47 | Jan 14 2007
Last night I had trouble with my computer and became extremely panicked when I couldn't work, couldn't check my email, couldn't surf the net... I couldn't even call my parents because I don't have their phone number memorized. I started to feel like I've gone on technology overload. I mean, I buy this nice computer, then I spend all this time trying to find the perfect apps for it or the perfect wallpaper or how to make it distraction free-- and what does it add up to? Me dependant on something and not really getting much work done. Even the lo-fi forum seems to fall into the perfection trap-- the perfect moleskine, the perfect fountain pen. Is it all just a waste of time. I mean, Cormac McCarthy wrote one of the best books I read last year (The Road) on a portable manual typewriter. Do you ever feel trapped like I do? And how do I get out? 7 Comments
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 Webb, I couldn't have said...Submitted by Stew on January 15, 2007 - 3:39pm.
Webb, I couldn't have said this better myself. Sounds very familiar. As far as lofi being perfectionist, it's only perfectionist if you make it so. One of the potential drawbacks (or benefits, depending on how you look at it), is that paper is very customizable and not subject to software limitations. As such, it's almost too easy to be tweaking the system rather than working. I know I'm guilty of this all too often. » POSTED IN:
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