Self-review: Looking back, this post is one of the first sightings of a simple, very useful concrete suggestion to have chargers ready to go literal everywhere you might want them, and that is a remarkably large life improvement that got through to many people and that I’m very happy I realized.
However, that could easily be more than all of this post’s value, because essentially no one embraced the central concept of Duel Wielding the phones themselves. And after a few months, I stopped doing so as well, in favor of not getting confused about which phone was which, and not having to worry about the location of multiple phones. I wonder if I just got trapped by a Trivial Inconvenience and made a mistake, because I definitely find the lack of the second phone meaningfully expensive every so often, so I should think about a revisit perhaps.
My guess is that this wouldn’t do any harm, but it also isn’t doing enough work, so we shouldn’t include it.
It might be worth doing a thing where we include literally the final paragraph as if it were its own post, minus its first four words, and lose the rest, as a kind of interlude somewhere?
Quick thoughts for solving the identifying two phones things: (a) attach a differently colored piece of tape to the back of each, and (b) change the Lock Screen images to be totally different colours (so that you can see it even peripherally). Also perhaps (c) attach the colored tape to the front of the phone so that you can always check even while using it.
Self-review: Looking back, this post is one of the first sightings of a simple, very useful concrete suggestion to have chargers ready to go literal everywhere you might want them, and that is a remarkably large life improvement that got through to many people and that I’m very happy I realized.
However, that could easily be more than all of this post’s value, because essentially no one embraced the central concept of Duel Wielding the phones themselves. And after a few months, I stopped doing so as well, in favor of not getting confused about which phone was which, and not having to worry about the location of multiple phones. I wonder if I just got trapped by a Trivial Inconvenience and made a mistake, because I definitely find the lack of the second phone meaningfully expensive every so often, so I should think about a revisit perhaps.
My guess is that this wouldn’t do any harm, but it also isn’t doing enough work, so we shouldn’t include it.
It might be worth doing a thing where we include literally the final paragraph as if it were its own post, minus its first four words, and lose the rest, as a kind of interlude somewhere?
I… think it might literally be worth doing the final-paragraph thing. I definitely benefited from that.
Quick thoughts for solving the identifying two phones things: (a) attach a differently colored piece of tape to the back of each, and (b) change the Lock Screen images to be totally different colours (so that you can see it even peripherally). Also perhaps (c) attach the colored tape to the front of the phone so that you can always check even while using it.