I’m blogging from my phone today, over coffee at Ground Central in Hell’s Kitchen. I’m at a conference I’ve been coming to for 10+ years, and for most of those, this shop has been my respite whenever I have 20 minutes to sneak away from meetings.
Sitting here now—as I’m writing on a giant iPhone 15, using the Jetpack app for WordPress—I’m thinking about how long technologies take to mature. When I started coming here, mobile and cloud were both still new-ish, especially in the legal market, where I work. I remember mobile data challenges being a big problem in legal tech. Companies dealing with mobile data were the hot startups for a few years here. Similar story for cloud, the legal market was the last to arrive.
When I left my job a few months ago, I turned in my work laptop. I bought a Chromebook and it’s my only laptop right now. 10 years ago, this would have would have been unthinkable. I still use Microsoft Office products daily. But the web and iOS apps for Office work great now, and it’s all tied together by OneDrive. I can get by with a Chromebook until I’m full time again, no problem.
By the way, if you’re around Times Square check out Ground ace the coffee is good, as are the music and sound system. Today they’re playing Regina Spektor, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and White Stripes.
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