{"id":1260,"date":"2012-11-19T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:34:49","slug":"working-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/11\/working-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Embarrassed but harangued, I reveal how I do some things on the computer so darn fast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not enjoying writing this post. It is about how I manage to do things quickly on the computer. As odd as it sounds (to me at least), people <em>accuse <\/em>me of working too quickly on the computer. Silly me, I thought accomplishing work quickly was a good thing. It seems that many people disagree with me.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is: my tip for working quickly on the computer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keep both hands on the keyboard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not impressed? Me neither, so let&#8217;s delve deeper into this subject. When I have repetitive tasks on the computer that I cannot program, i.e., they have 10% thinking mixed in at inconvenient times, I learn a series of keyboard strokes.<\/p>\n<p>For example,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>command-L<\/li>\n<li>command-V<\/li>\n<li>Return<\/li>\n<li>command-C<\/li>\n<li>arrow<\/li>\n<li>arrow<\/li>\n<li>Return<\/li>\n<li>control-Tab<\/li>\n<li>N command-V<\/li>\n<li>Return<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and so on.\u00a0I memorize the string of keystrokes and, as mindlessly as I can, punch them one after another as quickly as my 50+ year-old hands allow.<\/p>\n<p>When I have to perform a computer task, I learn the sequence of keystrokes, keep my hands off the mouse (mouse movements take far too much time), and go go go. I finish my task and &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People complain that I finish too fast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They are embarrassed because I finished in a third of the time they required. Hence, I must have done a very poor job of it and at heart I am a goof off.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, sometimes, many times, it is not a good idea to work quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Embarrassed but harangued, I reveal how I do some things on the computer so darn fast. I am not enjoying writing this post. It is about how I manage to do things quickly on the computer. As odd as it sounds (to me at least), people accuse me of working too quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,67],"tags":[140,187],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-work","tag-employment","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}