{"id":2917,"date":"2019-06-27T01:04:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T06:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2019-06-15T08:16:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:16:38","slug":"timing-rhythm-and-using-that-other-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/06\/timing-rhythm-and-using-that-other-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing, Rhythm, and Using that Other Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Is faster or slower better or worse? Or is it simply different timing and rhythm? And are there advantages to changing the timing and rhythm?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past week I was in an office in a different city. Frustration, angst, and generally a lousy week of poor productivity. Just before the week ended, I understood the frustration, and then it went away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was all about timing and rhythm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Rooney\">Andy Rooney<\/a> used a manual typewriter until he died &#8230; in 2011. He tried and tried to use a computer, but it went too fast. The timing was different, and he couldn&#8217;t adjust to the timing, even though it was &#8220;better.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My experience last week was &#8220;worse.&#8221; The computers were S L O W. I was three clicks ahead. I was not seeing what I expected. I was frustrated. This was worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finally understood. Oh, the timing is different. Adjust to the difference in timing. This isn&#8217;t better or worse, it is different. Ah, that is better. This is okay. I actually had more time to think, more time to breathe. Some aspects of this timing were better. Perhaps I could adjust when I returned home to better thinking and better breathing. Perhaps I could adjust my timing and rhythm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Is faster or slower better or worse? Or is it simply different timing and rhythm? And are there advantages to changing the timing and rhythm? This past week I was in an office in a different city. Frustration, angst, and generally a lousy week of poor productivity. Just before the week ended, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,21,35],"tags":[171,143,157],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-change","category-time","tag-adapting","tag-change","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}