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I get this use case, but I'm always suspicious how useful the workflow such "integration" supports may be. I have a feeling a lot of folks who flit between mult

I get this use case, but I'm always suspicious how useful the workflow such "integration" supports may be. I have a feeling a lot of folks who flit between multiple devices are staying occupied to avoid doing difficult or onerous work. In other words, the real "productivity" hack is to not support a dilute workflow. One will save a _lot_ more time that way compared to some device interoperability.

dvtrn 6y ago
I have a feeling a lot of folks who flit between multiple devices are staying occupied to avoid doing difficult or onerous work. That's an interesting connection you've drawn between switching audio sources and malingering work. On the flip side, a mere anecdote of where this kind of flipping was actually beneficial, if you will? It came in the form of being on a zoom call on the Macbook (which I have in a dock and connected to a pair of displays) with a single airpod in, hearing the kid having a kid moment, and being able to just reach over, open up my ipad, join the call and immediately have audio switched so I could walk down stairs to help buckaroo with a chore, walk back upstairs, put the ipad away and switch back to the Macbook was kind of...well awesome. No one on the call had a clue. (also comes in handy when I want to switch from work macbook to personal macbook after hours, or vice versa, if I'm on personal macbook after hours and get paged and need to jump on a slack call. Definitely not avoiding onerous or difficult work there either)
hombre_fatal 6y ago
What a weird reflex. Inventing arbitrary character flaws because someone wants to do something as harmless as be able to switch audio sources seamlessly, and then being so uncreative that the only reason you can come up with is to procrastinate work. Someone people truly can't handle gadget chit-chat.

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I get this use case, but I'm always suspicious how useful the workflow such "integration" supports may be. I have a feeling a lot of folks who flit between mult

by _huayra_ 6y ago

dvtrn 6y ago
I have a feeling a lot of folks who flit between multiple devices are staying occupied to avoid doing difficult or onerous work. That's an interesting connection you've drawn between switching audio sources and malingering work. On the flip side, a mere anecdote of where this kind of flipping was actually beneficial, if you will? It came in the form of being on a zoom call on the Macbook (which I have in a dock and connected to a pair of displays) with a single airpod in, hearing the kid having a kid moment, and being able to just reach over, open up my ipad, join the call and immediately have audio switched so I could walk down stairs to help buckaroo with a chore, walk back upstairs, put the ipad away and switch back to the Macbook was kind of...well awesome. No one on the call had a clue. (also comes in handy when I want to switch from work macbook to personal macbook after hours, or vice versa, if I'm on personal macbook after hours and get paged and need to jump on a slack call. Definitely not avoiding onerous or difficult work there either)
hombre_fatal 6y ago
What a weird reflex. Inventing arbitrary character flaws because someone wants to do something as harmless as be able to switch audio sources seamlessly, and then being so uncreative that the only reason you can come up with is to procrastinate work. Someone people truly can't handle gadget chit-chat.