Tools for Thought

In migrating virtually all of my computing into the cloud, I decided to try my hand at using a netbook. Depending on your semantics, I was using a netbook before they were netbooks, as a beta tester for the ill-fated Palm Foleo that arguably pioneered the genre. Of the models I surveyed, the HP Mini [...]

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In compliance with Pantech’s guidelines, I had to wait until today, April 19, to unveil the winner of the challenge I issued in my last post. For those of you have better things to do than follow links, the challenge was thus: I want you or anyone to post in the comments or email me [...]

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This isn’t the usual T4T post, for a couple of reasons. First, instead of giving advice in my usual presumptuous fashion, I’m asking for it. I’m radically redesigning my workflow and need a few intrepid readers to share some successful or dramatic examples of how they’re using the cloud. Second, I’m “selling out” by aligning [...]

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Just as a full voice mail box can’t accept new messages, a person preoccupied with too many thoughts can’t accept new ones. For many people, an excessive workload is anything beyond what they can hold in their immediate memory. That excess is experienced as stress, causing them to either overreact to all the things they [...]

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