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I have been holding off on buying a new laptop as we are budgeting for the new place.

I have been trying to tie it in with my new (personal) IT strategy about how I’m going to work at the new practice where all the facilities I have put down are laid bare before me.

My aim is not to carry anything to work.

I’ll put my phone in my back pocket with my keys and cycle.

I’ll cycle the long way most of the time, probably taking between 30 minutes and an hour to get to work. I’ll have all the facilities to get ready at work and I’ll wear scrubs all the time that I’m at work.

My breakfast will be at work and my lunch will be at work. The computer at work will speak to the laptop which is at home and the laptop arrived this week.

It is a beautiful thing, it’s a MacBook Pro in dark grey with all the fancy touch buttons along the top, but it’s interesting that much of the joy of a new laptop has been lost from the time that I got my first Mac laptop in 2008.

In 2008 I got a MacBook Air. The guy in the shop asked me several times if I understood the fact that it didn’t have several vital connection ports in it! It was the first step to Mac’s wireless technology world.

A few years later I had a MacBook Pro and then a MacBook Pro again and this is the third one.

It’s not quite the same when it comes out of the box now because I’ve had multiple Macs, iPads and phones and so therefore the shine wears off a bit.

The stress and the time to set it up the way I want to work is the biggest problem. It used to be that these things came out of the box ready to go. Now we have so much more technology and so many more tools available with them that it takes ages to get it anywhere close to the way you want (it still isn’t there yet)

It means you have to run two laptops – one that does the stuff that happened before and one that does the stuff it will do in the future, but never mind, it will be worth it in the end. I think that’s the point.

The point is that we have to continue to innovate and we have to continue to grow and we have to continue to take the pain of the new otherwise you get soft and stagnate and go backwards. When I get to work in the new Campbell Clinic in December - after having cycled for an hour, after having a shower in one of the shower rooms and hung my clothes up in one of the heated lockers, I’ll put on my scrubs and go and get my nutribullet breakfast ready and take it to my office and turn my Mac on and the desktop is the same as the one I left yesterday at home, all of the thoughts and all of the scheming and all of the dealing will feel a little bit more worth it.

Blog Post Number: 1950