Ted is a Luddite!

Last Sunday's Boston Globe has a nice article "Giving Up on Gadgets" by Maggie Jackson.

"A small but growing number of otherwise tech-friendly people, however, are saying 'enough' to the assumption that more technology is best," says Maggie.

I'm quoted as someone who gave up my handheld email device (years ago). It had some great features and functionality, but basically it was NOT improving my productivity.

I was TOO connected and people expected immediate email answers on non time critical issues, simply because they knew I was getting my emails almost instantaneous.


Earlier this year I was working at a client site where each employee had a cell phone, pager, email, and instant messaging. If we needed to contact someone to get something done, for example rebooting a server, it was great.

However the people I was trying to work with were constantly getting interrupted and our productivity was running probably about 50%.

No, of course they didn'’t have any metrics, just a warm fuzzy feeling that being able to interrupt anyone at anytime was a great thing!