http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...
Think I'll side with Gruber's thoughts: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/29/dave-morin
talk about wasteful...
This might be culture, or just the people I know, but...
There seems to be an expectation that I'm supposed to respond immediately to any call or text, and if I don't, some how I'm an arse. I have a mobile, there for apparently I'm never possibly parted form it, have the instant ability to stop anything I might already be doing, and its damn rude not to answer with in 3 rings, or reply to a text the second I receive it.
As such, I have come to view my mobile as some sort of pocket Nazi, who insists I will do as told.
Well, no.
I didn't get a mobile phone so that others can dictate my life and it's schedule. So, no, I don't immediately pick up ever call or immediately respond to texts. I do so as and then I see fit. Obviously Im selective about it based on context, but there is no way Im going to allow that little pocket Nazi rule my life.
It really gets to me how I might be in the middle of something with another person, and any time their phone rings, what ever we are doing must be paused so they can take the call or respond to a text. Its like the phone has a priority over an actual person one might be with. Its just plain rude. I see it all over the place, and it appalls me.
Ahhhhhhhhhh HN therapy. :)
These new rules of engagement are also old rules of engagement. In older times people called only if truly necessary. They hand-wrote letters otherwise.
I wish people started writing letters again. There could be a startup idea waiting to be discovered around this.
I really wish that people were more open to this; it's strange because it's how most of the world operated 10 years ago, but the thought of just calling someone up is almost ludicrous now...
Pro tip: Hit the volume rocker to mute the ringer without cancelling the call. Works on at least iOS and most Androids.
I feel sneaky using it as opposed to declining the call, but Italy's best rule for warfare as always been "the best defense is to not be there".
That was just a wordy introspection by someone marveling at her discovery of a new way to be inconsiderate to others.
Why would you even want to talk to her, with that monumental level of disdain?
I'm joking, of course, but Louis makes some insightful points that go along with the author's argument.
> “I use [it] to keep things at ‘inbox zero.’
Well, only 129 to go.
This was the first of a few symptoms.
