41. The Lo-Fi PDA

I will preface this chapter by saying I am a HUGE technology fan. I’ve owned every version of the iPod. I could write “graffiti” on my Palm with the best of them. I overcame an addiction to the Blackberry scroll wheel only to replace it with a finger-swipe addiction to my iPhone. Suffice it to say, if it is made out of aluminum and has an Apple logo on it, I already own it or I am going to own it soon. In my digestion of all this technology over the years I’ve learned a valuable lesson: There are some things that are just better on paper.

At our company, everyone is issued a “Lo-Fi PDA” to go along with their state-of-the-art, hi-fi smart phone. The Lo-Fi PDA is nothing more than a fancy name for a notebook. We are big fans ...

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