I don’t know about you but I am awe-struck and often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information available to us each day over the web. Add to that the real-time capacity of social media and it’s easy to feel under siege from new technology.

While it isn’t life threatening, it can be deadly to your creativity. That’s why my constant companion over the last five years has been a voice recorder and today I retired the latest (the black one on the right). I’ve dropped it, sat on it, thrown it or simply used it one too many times. I am confident that I will mistreat it’s replacement equally…

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