Sliding Backward on Tech? There Are Benefits - latest electric toothbrush

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their work and personal lives?
Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, discussed the technology she is using.
About two years ago, you wrote an article about how you can lower all the technical levels.
How did you downgrade?
What do you like to do this?
This is easier than you think because you can downgrade very effectively by ignoring the upgrade.
You will naturally find yourself sliding backwards.
In my case, this shift is intentional, but it is more about making psychological adjustments than stopping existing technologies. (
Although I did abandon the electric toothbrush permanently. )
There is a general assumption just because there is a new high point
Previous technical versions of things in low processing
We should adopt this technology.
I look at it from a different perspective, that is, starting with a need or a question and asking myself: will this new technology be of substantial help?
If growth is speed or information, my next question is: what is trade? off?
What have I lost in this gain, in general is the gain greater than the loss? (
Probably the only thing I learned from Econ 111. )
Many times, I find this is not the case.
The land in the loss column may be related to the process, and the process of doing something may be as valuable as the final result.
Last year, I read this book, crft: an inquiry into the origin and true meaning of traditional craft.
"I'm not cunning at all, but this book makes me eager to build my own roof with a thatched house, just to touch the body that puts something useful together and the spiritual labor that comes with it. (
That is to say, I did not lift one finger. )
On the other hand, I find that many new technologies are actually much less efficient than the tools they are trying to replace.
As far as I'm concerned, Nook, Kindle or iPad is worse than printing books.
You can't flip the photo back and forth to insert or easily browse the index;
You don't feel the number of pages (
Really? ).
You lose the design of the product, which is usually beautiful, depending on the weight of the paper and the choice of the font.
In order to give up printing for a year, you have to pay me a very expensive salary.
So is the paper calendar;
They are just better.
I was impatient with the slow pace of people inserting meetings into the calendar on the phone.
At least 30 seconds faster with old writingtimey agenda (Levenger here).
My Google calendar will always play a secondary role in this more detailed agenda and will be Post-
It's with a Morse King-do list.
I trace this obsession with efficiency back to the children's book cheaper in my teens, which tells about some efficiency experts and their children, and my understanding of the book is too exaggerated.
With all this in mind, what does your tech setup look like for your job?
My personal life techwise is in stark contrast to my professional life, which is to some extent a ballast stone for my professional life.
Although what people may think is the lowest
Beats technology, we are in a technology-
For the workplace, our content through high
From technology platform to technology platformsavvy readers.
This means doing what I can at work to understand, adopt and evaluate the same tools that our newsroom colleagues and readers are using and find out how they can substantially strengthen our journalism.
We're actually the first table to have a podcast.
It's been 15 years now)
It's also part of the Alexa pilot program that adjusts our audio content for voice users.
At work, I opened 12 windows and tabs, like other digital drones, frantically switching between laptop and phone.
By the way: I have the ugliest but best low
The tech case of klutzes that has been putting down the phone like me.
Pay 3 euros from Ale
Jump in Madrid and you can order online.
It would be ridiculous to look around with it, but you will pick it up successfully.
What advice do you have for other people who want to lower the tech level?
In general, when I hear the phrase "there is an app", my first question is, "Do you need it?
"The vast majority of new technologies are developed for profit.
So every new form of technology raises the question: Is this what I am willing to pay, whether the cost is USD or privacy?
Like many people, I am angry at the idea of my personal life being monetized.
How does the book industry shift to digital publishing change the way books are reviewed in The Times?
What else has not changed?
Strictly speaking, our desks did not change much during the review process --
Because most of our editors and reviewers prefer printing.
It is easier for editors to evaluate a book by going in and out without reading all of it.
Reviewers like to mark their kitchen, a copy of the earlier reviews.
But PDF files, let the truth
Check the easier and faster process for embargo books.
We can also see earlier versions of Visual books that are not available in galleys (
The cost of printing is too high)
No physical copy waiting to be completed.
We can get audiobooks digitally more easily than with CDs.
What's low outside of work
Are you currently obsessed with tech products?
I am fairly confident that I am the last DVD subscriber that was once called Netflix and now a DVD.
My queue is already 500.
I don't subscribe to any streaming service and our TV doesn't have an antenna set up for the network TV either.
It's really easy for me to decide what to look at: there are only four options.
When I go somewhere with multiple streaming subscriptions, I don't actually want to see anything.
As Barry Schwartz wrote in his persuasive 2004 book The Paradox of Choice: Why more and less, when we face too many possibilities, we are easily overwhelmed and paralyzedat least I do).
It's also easier to find old and foreign movies on DVD.
However, I do like the technology to narrow the selection.
One of our recently successful apps is Happy Cow, which locates vegetarian dining options.
It was very useful last summer when traveling with our 13-in Germanyyear-
Old vegetarian daughter
I still regret uploading all my CDs at my husband's request and he knows more about technology than I do.
Recently I bought a portable CD player for my two kids.
I want to dig out the vinyl again.
Maybe one day I will buy a "new" record player.