"You do it like that?"

Peter Rukavina

Seth Godin on digital hygeine:

The solution is fun and simple: find a smart person and have them watch you use the computer for an hour.

She’ll share ten shortcuts and principles that will amaze you.

And then you can return the favor.

I did, albeit less intentionally, with Olle several years ago, the big payoff of which was turning off email notifications; this has improved my productivity and reduced work stress.

Last month I watched Josh MacFadyen use QGIS in a coffee shop for 15 minutes and I’ve been using what I’ve learned to great effect ever since.

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Submitted by Steven Garrity on

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Yes! At work we often end up screen sharing on phone calls with each other. Seeing how a person uses the tools is often as valuable as whatever they were intending to show you.

Submitted by Ton Zijlstra on

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You beat me to articulating the same observation... https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/05/watch-and-learn/

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