![]() ![]() Over the years, I’ve compiled a variety of tips and tricks that help me make better use of my MacBook Pro laptop, and as a result, be more productive at my job. A friend of mine said, “Remap it to caps lock and use it for a week, you won’t ever think about it again.” He was right, I am able to retrain my fingers after forcing myself into a change. When Apple removed the escape key from the MacBook Pro, I was terrified my laptop would break and I would be forced to upgrade. A workflow that was once annoying has cemented itself as a functional habit and our fingers just fall into a familiar groove. But sometimes the real bottleneck is the habits that we’ve developed for years. ![]() ![]() We buy bigger monitors because we know it improves productivity. We refresh our laptops every three years because they are ‘getting slow’. My favorite quote from The Phoenix Project is: “Any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion.” After all, such things are somewhat personal and habitual. I try to ignore it, presuming they won’t appreciate my unsolicited advice on how they use their own computer. Sitting on a Zoom video conference, watching a brilliant person sharing their screen but being hand-cuffed by the way they use their laptop. I can tell you the day I knew I would be a Systems Administrator (the term SRE hadn’t been invented yet.) My Linux professor, a brilliant engineer at NASA, said: “The best system administrators are the laziest.” He went on to qualify that statement but I had stopped listening. ![]()
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