Adler Santos

Software Engineer with a background on theoretical physics and growth hacking. I do Ruby and Python.

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Life as a Productivity Suite – Part 2: Touch Typing

This is the 2nd part of a series of blog posts where I write about productivity as a means of handling the volume and stress of today’s mostly digital life. [Part 1](adler.svbtle.com/life-as-a-productivity-suite-part1-email) is about email.

The majority of the people I see in public who are typing stuff on their computers don’t know how to touch type – typing without looking at the keyboard. I learned this during my first year in high school. Doesn’t every school teach this nowadays and acknowledge how utterly beneficial this is? This should be required education for today’s youth who are immersed in computers during most of their waking life.

I consider touch typing as a super power in today’s digital age.

Touch typing still stands as one of the top productivity skills for me. It’s something I can’t live without anymore when facing a desktop or a laptop. A good familiarity with the...

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Life as a Productivity Suite – Part 1: Email

In this series of blog posts, I write about productivity as a means of handling the volume and stress of today’s mostly digital life.

I love productivity. I don’t only mean productivity in the sense of efficiency – the amount of output per unit time – but productivity in the sense of doing things in the most restful manner possible (which still typically amounts to higher efficiency). All the time you save through productivity when accumulated in the long term is time that could be spent in other activities such as reading, traveling, sleeping, i.e. stuff that keeps us sane.

Let’s start with the dreaded email.

Be a constant replying machine

While writing an email, some of us worry about our writing voice, on how we’ll sound to the recipient and how our message can be interpreted based on its tone. I’ve written so much email in my life that I have gone through a major transition in...

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