Spending time to save time

This post starts out seeming to have nothing to do with photography, but if you’re patient – or impatient with the scroll wheel at the ready – I promise it will eventually relate to camera work. I spend about six hours at day at a computer keyboard, editing images, writing, doing email, moderating forums, editing other people’s writing, computer programming, and long bull sessions with ChatGPT about the meaning of life (OK, you caught me: that last one is a lie). I am a touch typist, having learned as a 15-year-old in summer school on a typewriter with no legends on the keys. Keyboards have always been important to me. I spent way too much time at the crappy board on a Teletype ASR-33 in the timesharing era, and with that same POS connected to my HP 2114A before I got a glass terminal. When the IBM 5150 (their first PC) came out, I fell in love with the standard keyboard, which had been carefully engineered by the folks in Lexington to feel like an IBM Selectric typewriter. For years…