I bought into that for a while, until I watched other people working on their computers more often.
At that point I realized (honestly), the difference was that I am about 3x as fast at keyboarding than the average person. I can make a screenshot, clip and send it using Paint faster than most people can use their preferred snipping tool.
I also rarely use my mouse - for anything. It's all keyboard shortcuts for me.
I love new tricks - when they're actually better or faster than my old way. What I've found with most new tricks is that they're only better for a person who was much slower than me in the old way. When you keyboard @ 150 WPM, you just don't really notice any difference when someone comes out with a fancy email management tool, a new snipping tool, etc. The assumption that the new tool is better also proves to be a harmful bias. Someone may spend more time sanitizing formatted text in Excel, for example, but I can paste it in Notepad and back into excel faster than they can do their shinier toy - it's a matter of "original speed" trumping "tool-created speed". Now occasionally, I do find a tool that actually saves me time, it's just not as common as software promoters would have you think.
Ok fine, I also take some joy in proving that most new toys are only faster for slower people.
That's also how I've successfully kept myself to a 40 hr work week in many jobs. Hyper productivity.
Ouch, that was my rare brag post, I couldn't seem to help it.
OK I'm done now NG, but you directly challenged me to this duel
