Years ago, I discover that my computer needed two browsers, one for play, one for work. The reason was simple, I need to differentiate between working online, that at the time was significant and playing online, reading blogs and other stuff.That trick has work for years. I even have a friend, to witch I share this trick that begin using Internet Explorer as his play browser and when I question using it, he told me: “I hate Internet Explorer so much that I almost prefer not to play”
This morning, Seth Godin talk on his blog among other things on a two-device solution, one device to accomplish real work, and one for the rest.
It was around the year 2000 when I drop the desktop out of my life, and begin having only one computer, I even went in make deals with IT people on my places of employment so I can use only one laptop, mine, for work and personal. I was convince that Productivity need it to be tied to the fact that you have one device with you all the time.
I have no desktop since 2000, but kind of got one when Apple launch the iPad. My ipad is powerful, and for my needs can accomplish most of what I need, and some of it even better than the laptop. It wasn’t until yesterday, while doing an interview and this morning while reading Seth Godin blog that I noticed that I had again the arrangement of a Desktop/Laptop, only is now Laptop/iPad/iPhone.
Don’t take me wrong I have been good, I don’t play in the iPad, or the MacBook. Games are to be played in the iPhone, but when you learn you have many devices, you also discover that you need better rules and guidelines.
This is the extract from Seth Godin blog this morning:
"The two-device solution
Simple but bold: Only use your computer for work. Real work. The work of making something.
Have a second device, perhaps an iPad, and use it for games, web commenting, online shopping, networking... anything that doesn't directly create valued output (no need to have an argument here about which is which, which is work and which is not... draw a line, any line, and separate the two of them. If you don't like the results from that line, draw a new line).
Now, when you pick up the iPad, you can say to yourself, "break time." And if you find yourself taking a lot of that break time, you've just learned something important."
Are playing and working, and trying to be productive in the same place, do you have a work browser and a play one? Do you have a work computer and a play one?