Mark Hurst interviewed me on Techtonic, his great show about the dangers of big tech, on April 15. You can hear the interview here (click on "Pop-up player"):
A lovely interview, thanks Richard. It was perfect timing - I just finished your book last night! I'm only a recent convert to typewriters, so am slowly catching up.
I found the Dvorak questions quite interesting. I changed to the Colemak layout on my work computer due to wrist pain, and simply can no longer touch type Qwerty on my keyboard. But I do not have that issue on my typewriters. It's a combination of being a different machine (muscle memory still works for some reason) and using a different typing behaviour - more of a peck with multiple fingers rather than touch typing. And I will simply never type enough to have the same wrist issues that I have in my daily job (I'm a programmer).
So perhaps Mark would be happy with a Qwerty typewriter too?
Can't wait! (:
ReplyDeleteI will be listening.
ReplyDeleteA lovely interview, thanks Richard. It was perfect timing - I just finished your book last night! I'm only a recent convert to typewriters, so am slowly catching up.
ReplyDeleteI found the Dvorak questions quite interesting. I changed to the Colemak layout on my work computer due to wrist pain, and simply can no longer touch type Qwerty on my keyboard. But I do not have that issue on my typewriters. It's a combination of being a different machine (muscle memory still works for some reason) and using a different typing behaviour - more of a peck with multiple fingers rather than touch typing. And I will simply never type enough to have the same wrist issues that I have in my daily job (I'm a programmer).
So perhaps Mark would be happy with a Qwerty typewriter too?
Thanks! I'll pass your comment on to him. Enjoy exploring the typosphere!
DeleteMark tells me he got the following message: "I listened to the typewriter podcast, and ordered a typewriter!" Job done.
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