Remembering the first computer I bought: It was a Dell Inspiron 2600 laptop. I loved configuring and ordering that thing online. I loved pulling it out of my backpack. I loved assuming everyone was in awe as I hacked away at the keyboard (they weren’t).
I used that laptop all through undergrad and a bit into graduate school. I attempted to keep it going for a bit longer with added memory and a new hard drive.
It wasn’t meant to be.
After cleaning it up, I handed it over to my dad who ended up using it for another five or six years.
Why stroll down computer memory lane?
I was thinking about my recent move to Substack and how it mirrored my switch from PCs to Macs.
My PC era was great. I learned a lot about memory and motherboards and buses and a whole lot of things that are somewhat irrelevant in today’s world. From desktops to laptops to servers to email exchanges, tearing apart and rebuilding those machines was a great thrill.
Then it wasn’t.
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I wanted to focus on productivity and output. I cared less about building a powerful computer and instead focused on ease of use without tinkering.
Hello MacBook Pro.
Easy. Little hardware configuration. Focus on output was front and center.
(While I still do a lot of tinkering, it’s mostly software tinkering these days.)
My switch to Substack mirrored the above.
I felt I was doing too much tweaking without enough output.
If there are no Krispy Kremes in the home, I can’t eat them.
While Substack doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of other platforms, those bells and whistles are the Krispy Kremes: If they aren’t available, I can’t spend my time tweaking or configuring or changing them.
I can focus on the output.
Hello Substack.
(And hello The New Communicator.)
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08/22/22 • 8 min
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