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Spotted this recently on a toilet paper dispenser in Luton airport:
The text reads: "NOW PLEASE WASH YOUR HANDS".
Isn't this great? You are sitting there, doing what you have to do and then somebody nice tells you what to do next with your life...
I have tried to use digital to-do-lists, but they don't work for me. They have to be physical. Why is that?
For me, it's because the joy of crossing something out that I have done, is at its highest when doing it on paper. Multiple times. In several colours. Just to fend off all evils and negative images that are mentally attached to it.
And: If I have done something before it has even been on the to-do-list, I will write it down afterwards and immediately cross it out. Just for the instant gratification.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Have had the motorola F3 for a while now. It took me a while to get used to it, but now I do appreciate the back-to-basics approach of its design: No camera, no video, no help with text-input, no colour display, 6 ring-tones. It's a phonephone.
One thing has struck me though: Every single time I go to the carphone warehouse store to top it up, the guys behind the till ask me: "How easy do you find the phone to use? We had tons of complaints and people don't even know how to write txts."
They really do hate the phone. Maybe it is already too late for a phone that is as basic as the very first mobile phones that came out. People are already used to many-level menues so much, that they are swamped with a phone that can do ten things, no more.
