Why I am a Keyboard Hog
Written on 1 Apr 2007
Hi. My name is Steve and I’m (sniff), I’m a Keyboard Hog.
But there may be a solution. I was talking to fellow sufferer Ivan on the train back from SPA and I thought about my, in NLP terms, kinesthetic tendency1. I realised that the important thing for me was to have something in my hands and, with a single keyboard, this meant doing too much of the typing. Recently, at my current client we’ve been able to plug in two keyboards thanks to the wonders of USB and I think I’m getting the habit under control. Now I have something to hold, but my pair can type as well. Ivan said he recognised the pattern, but now he’s post-technical it doesn’t affect him.
One day at a time.
1 Actually, reading through the NLP article, I seem to have all the tendencies at once. I guess it’s like reading a medical textbook.
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