Dangers of the Geek (In)attention Span
- Receive email “Can you post this file to the website?”
- Download file
- Try to upload the file using ‘scp’ and realize that it’s asking you for the password. Which you don’t remember.
- Find password
- Upload file to temporary spot on server
- Setup ssh to allow you to access the account without a password
- Configure Dropzone so you can drag and drop files to upload
- Get distracted and go to something else
- Go to lunch and clear out your email on your iPhone while waiting
- Re-read the original email from step 1 and realize that you never actually put the file where it needs to go
- Write this Tumblr post
- Put the file where it needs to go [#TODO]