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On the one hand, yes… no, in fact three things: 1. On the one hand, yes. It can be very idealistic. You might imagine that you will achieve a new level of prod
by keybored 4y ago
On the one hand, yes… no, in fact three things:
1. On the one hand, yes. It can be very idealistic. You might imagine that you will achieve a new level of productivity where you will look down on your previous level and think: “How did I ever get anything done down there?”
2. Computer input optimization often gets derided with some variation on the “my typing speed is not the bottleneck when writing code”. But first of all, productivity in the immediate sense might not be the point: the point might be ergonomics and health. And it sounds silly to get health issues by just sitting and typing stuff and yet… well, it does happen a lot, apparently.[1]
I have done some optimizations with regards to my keyboard but the holy grail for me (I feel like) is stenography (which you mentioned). But I fear that I’m not the kind of person that could devote something like on average 30 minutes a day for multiple months to that.
3. Things like optimizing my setup is what makes me excited. So if I can keep my idealism in check then the journey itself will have been worth the effort.
[1] You’re screwed either way: if you’re in a physical profession (a “trade”) you wear your body out. If you are in an office job you either don’t use your body enough, get some kind of ergonomic problem, or get burnout from being too much in your head.