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Don’t Use the Same Human Communication Method When Interacting With Your Computer

Computers are designed to ease you.

Yosef Andreas
3 min readJul 9, 2021
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

Are you still treating your computer like it’s your confidant? Typing away, pouring your heart out, only to be met with a blank screen and a cursor that couldn’t care less about your problems? It’s time to change the way you interact with your computer, my friend.

Computers are not humans. They don’t have feelings, they don’t get tired, and they certainly don’t care about your life story. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be useful. In fact, they’re designed to ease your workload and make your life easier. So, why not start using them for what they’re designed for?

Don’t Use the Same Human Communication Method When Interacting With Your Computer

Think about it, when you’re typing away on a word processor, the computer is receiving input from you through the keyboard, processing it, and then displaying it on the screen. But what if there’s a way to improve the input part? Your keyboard keys serve as an input device, and the computer only recognizes them as text when you hit them on a text field.

That’s where text expansion comes in. It’s like having a secret code with your computer. Just a few…

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Yosef Andreas
Yosef Andreas

Written by Yosef Andreas

An avid reader. I write mainly about the best values a book can deliver to you.

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