Like hairdryers for the internet
Every now and then I notice a change in the way I use the internet. Generally speaking, I’ll make adjustments as I go – trying and abandoning new services, sometimes making different things part of my everyday life, and occasionally radically transforming my workflow (always for the better, as it happens).
I have several driving forces when it comes to this stuff. I like things that are shiny, new and well-designed. I like minimalism – both aesthetically and in terms of use, and so any reduction in complexity is always welcomed. I’m also quite extraordinarily lazy, but I like getting an awful lot of things done, which is always a tension I try and resolve by finding the best and easiest ways to achieve a great deal.
I’ve just started to notice that what I do online is quite fundamentally different from what I had been doing until quite recently – and it’s like a long-overdue justification of something I’ve been saying for about eight years now: The Internet is like electricity.
