Thursday, July 16th, 2026, 6:58 am
Don’t Go Paperless
Filed under: 2 days ago: In Defence of Physical Tickets
any people actually think or genuinely believe that “going paperless” (i.e. no more paper receipts, bills etc.) makes them look smart. In reality, they typically surrender to brainwash from greedy companies that try to avoid manual labour, shipping costs, and materials. There’s a good reason to have (both get and keep) a paper trail. It’s not surveillance, it is for you to control, even shred if so you wish.
Last week I was almost completely away from the computer for three days and I didn’t miss the computer, the Internet, my inbox etc. Not at all. I didn’t check E-mail for half a week and didn’t miss anything critical. I did not use a phone either. In some sense, I guess that I became anti-computers in many contexts; I’ve noticed that some of the more senior judges seem to be like that as well, as some work 100% on paper (markers, sticky notes, handwritten notes, bookmarks and so on). It is a case of “the right tool for the job” and all that, a friend has explained to me, as “computers make sense in a lot of places but should not be shoehorned into workflows where they do not belong.”
In modern times the idea of “disconnecting” (from computers, not just the Net) became known as “Detox”, recognising the fact that digital things can be “Toxic”.
