I won't even list mine-they're antique, half-hearted, disorganized, and mildly intrusive. But I wonder whether effort, intelligence, and time spent dealing with everything on the monitor/ipod/blackberry is actually worth it. I have friends from the dawn of the PC era who spent their days learning every obscure keystroke combinations, and mastered machines that were suddenly obsolete-all that knowledge, now as useless as...well, as the computers themselves. There's a point that many of us reach when we just say fuck it, and refuse, like bad-tempered old mutts, to learn new tricks. It's amazing how much time one saves, how much more orderly your world is, and how productive your disordered and comfortable world becomes.

I tend to agree. IT tends to tangle and disengage but also allows people to come together. IT is a unwieldy two edge sword that becomes larger and heavier with use and thus is more effective but at the same time is personal undoing.

Less is more.