11/29/2023 0 Comments Bettersnaptools expor![]() ![]() Here are some brutal truths to help you decide if your window management could use some improvements: I’m sharing them here, hoping others may find them useful as well. 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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