Here’s this week’s 200 word idea thanks to Twofeetthick.com, Lifehacker.com, Seth’s blog.
Computers are obviously the most popular way to write, but star Pearl Jam singer and songwriter Eddie Vedder still prefers to use a typewriter.
As Vedder notes – “I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you’re fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote. There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I’d have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files – I don’t know about those things… And a typewriter keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.”
As Seth Godin notes, Isaac Asimov wrote more than 400 books, on a manual typewriter, with no access to modern productivity tools. Would they would have helped him write 400 more?
Too often, we get so caught up in maximizing the benefits of technology that we lose sight of what already works for us. There’s nothing stopping Vedder from learning about computers, but he recognizes that it’s not important; his core task of writing a song is done well enough on a typewriter. So he sticks with it.
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‘I wonder how much productivity comes from new techniques, and how much comes from merely getting sick of non-productivity and deciding to do something that matters, right now.’ | Seth Godin
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