Living with Imperfection

I am a perfectionist (which is really hard for someone as imperfect as I am). As I do more typing on my iPad, I find that the tradeoff between perfection and time is magnified. When I write, I try to take time and energy to get it just right. But typing is much harder on the iPad, and editing is even harder. That makes it hard to be a perfectionist unless you spend even more time on your writing. One goal of the iPad is to be more, not less, efficient so perfection has to be sacrificed.

Of course, an upside is that brevity can be a great virtue. I tend to ramble unnecessarily. I am less likely to do that on an iPad. That is also one of the virtues of Twiiter.

David Marcovitz