Tag: meaning

A thought

Posted on by philipdodson

Perhaps we could choose just to pause in advance of tomorrow, where those who are privileged enough, will all sit down to open presents, eat large feast like dinners, enjoy time with friends and family, perhaps we could all spare a thought for what we are actually celebrating or doing this all for every year.

Perhaps, a thought for those less privileged and what we collectively could do to help those people not just once a year when we are conditioned to be kind to each other, but all throughout the year.

What really is it all about? What could we do differently if we were not conditioned to behave this way once a year? Is there really any meaning to Christmas anymore and what was the idea in the first place?

Or we could choose to not pause and carry on.

Qwerty efficiencies

Posted on by philipdodson

Those are the 6 top left letters on an English language keyboard and all the other letters in this layout we’re supposedly placed in this arrangement so that the most used letters were in a difficult position to slow typists down so that mechanical typewriters didn’t jam or break.

We still continue with this system today yet we don’t have to as modern touch screens on our phones won’t break by typing too quickly. Well depends just how furiously you can type!

The fact is people are now looking into a different keyboard layout based on today’s users.

But why? What benefit will this have for the human race? ok, for the English speaking humans in this case.

Ok, so it might make typing more efficient.

Who says being more efficient is a benefit though?

QWERTY or not, our lives do not have to be constantly improved by meaningless changes or upgrades. We don’t have to be more efficient.

No one seems to seek improvements in empathy, kindness, compassion, love and other more meaningful things, strangely.

This could be achieved by spending less time looking to be more efficient because more efficient people tend to get given more to do not less. We’d be better off being kindly, lovingly, and wonderfully inefficient.