Personal Technology Challenge: 10 Things
I really liked this post in Zen Habits titled The 100 Things Challenge. The essence is that you cut your personal possessions down to 100 things. Things that are shared, non-personal stuff, books, and tools don't count. It got me wondering about our personal technology burden. How many different programs, web applications, tools, toys and gadgets do we accumulate? How many of those do we use everyday?
I'm going to cut my tech burden down to ten items for the next 30 days. This includes hardware, software and web apps. Here's my initial list:
I'm going to cut my tech burden down to ten items for the next 30 days. This includes hardware, software and web apps. Here's my initial list:
What's on yours?
- MacBook Pro
- iPod
- Treo
- Google Reader
- GMail
- Google Notebook
- Entourage
- MindManager
- Keynote/Pages
- ScanR
Hmmmm.
1) laptop
2) camera
3) headphones. (big fan of Pandora, also)
4) gmail
5) newsgator
6) Basecamp
7) Blipfoto
8) Typepad
9) Skype (mostly for chat)
10)cellphone
11) Excel. (I feel naked and vulnerable without a spreadsheet to work on...it's a security blanket, thingy.)
Posted by: Zane | September 26, 2007 at 02:31 PM
Here is my list for the week:
1.Macbook
2.iPhone
3.Garmin GPS
4.ScanSnap
5.Moleshine Notebook
6.NetNewsWire
7.MarsEdit
8.Pages/Keynote
9.Daylite3
10..Mac
Posted by: Grant D. Griffiths | September 26, 2007 at 02:08 PM
Same, except I will use my iPhone instead of a Treo, Mail instead of Entourage, and qipit instead of scanr. ;-)
Posted by: Benoit | September 26, 2007 at 09:58 AM