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> It's somewhat amazing how far, in 2014, people can get without any tech expertise at all. It's not just Obama and other prominent politicians. There are count
by Thriptic 12y ago
> It's somewhat amazing how far, in 2014, people can get without any tech expertise at all. It's not just Obama and other prominent politicians. There are countless incredibly successful business people that are lucky to turn on a computer.
I know of a CEO of a major American company that has his secretary print out all of his hundreds of daily emails and manually sort them for him. He then dictates his replies into a dictaphone and has her type them out.
- daveslash 12y agoSomeone recently told me the exact same story about a company at which they used to be employed. They didn't tell me the name of the company, but they referred to it as a "financial institution".
- Thriptic 12y agoInteresting. The individual I am referring to oversees a pharmaceutical company.
- bch 12y agoOh ya, not financial institution, but pharmaceutical company. And the first letter in their name is in the front half of the alphabet..? edit s/pharmacy/pharmaceutical/ edit2: this is a joke. I don't know who this is, am trolling
- arthurcolle 12y agoAstraZeneca?
- 001sky 12y agoThis is more common than you think.
- azernik 12y agoJust to one-up - there was a major security breach in the IDF (as close as Israel has to a Snowden) because a general also wanted to read is reports on paper. So he allowed his assistant to put classified documents on CDs and take them over to an unsecured printing machine, where she proceeded to stash every single one and carried them off the base when her service was over.
- clarkm 12y agoI think Donald Knuth does something similar.
- grayclhn 12y agoKnuth doesn't reply to 100s of emails a day, though.
- moron4hire 12y agoI think his is a matter of choice, though.