Lazy Gear: Rocket Book

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One aspect of being a lazy employee is to be organize, which means having a planner of sorts. Anything can be a planner per say, a piece of scratch paper, a napkin, or even the back of envelope. Now all of these choices are cheap and easy to get to, but at the same time easy enough to get lost. This isn’t lazy, because what if it was something important written on there, like an money making idea, a plot twist to your writers block, or just the number for that date on Saturday night and you lost it. Great, either you have to spend energy to look for it, or chalk up as a lost and thus overall spending more effort than you should’ve in the first place. Thus, a note book should suffice, but finding that right note book might be a little hard.

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This is what it looks like after I scanned it in. 

For the lazy employee, it has to be easy to carry, compact, and does more work for you. I present to you Rocket Book! I picked up my rocket book sometime earlier this year, and I haven’t gone back to any other notebook for a long while. It’s fairly compact that comes with 32 pages. Now it first seems not a lot but the thing about these pages is that they’re reusable. They are made of specialized material that allows you to write using Pilot Frixion Pens and then afterwards wipe it off. Now it doesn’t make sense to write something important to be erase, the thing about these is that, your able to quickly scan the pages with your app to allow easy upload to your e-mail, drop box, or other things as a pdf or a jpeg. These means less clutter and waste for you, and more things to keep around.

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What actually gets scanned in. This is before I wrote that stuff in the other pictures.

The con though is that Frixion pens, are great pens, and are erasable (seriously awesome part), they aren’t my cup of tea of pens that I like to use. I am getting use to it but the thing about Rocketbook is that you have to allow the ink to dry for 15 seconds. Which means it can be troublesome for left hand writers. Another aspect to it too is that you have to give care to your book. i.e. you can’t leave ink on there more than a month or it stains horrible, or to not be very abrasive or else you you remove the coating that allows for the erasable nature of it.  Just like a white board, you can write all you want but over time, the ink and the coating it is on, doesn’t get clear and it becomes a little darker than when it was brand new. If you don’t mind any of those things, then this book is perfect.

The company that makes these book are constantly in R.D.  and just recently came out notepads in similar function which I picked up. You can pick up your Rocket Book at Target or on Amazon. You can also view this product and more at their website.

Improvement Vs Perfection

“Strive for continuous improvement than perfection.” – Kim Collins

I remember I was playing a online game with a couple of friends, we got to a point that we had a good team going on to a point that one of my friends said “Perfect”. (Side note: The game was Overwatch) But despite having that “perfect” team, we wont a lot of games but not all of them. We told previously before that we couldn’t be perfect, so it begs to question then why should we even get better? I came across it is impossible to understand everything out there in the world, then why should we try.

It was the philosophy of a seminarian that I know, who said what was the reason behind it. For example of a pianist. A human pianist despite hitting the key the right note, in the right tone, and at the time time, may seem perfect, but if one person doesn’t like listening to the piano, doesn’t that mean it equate to a failure on the pianist. At the same time, the pianist may be dis-satisfied with the result, despite the average listening thinking of it perfect. It is a view of perspective (which I will discuss at a different time), but additional thing to think about is the reason why the pianist, or anyone is doing what they are doing. Maybe he is doing because he likes the idea that people enjoy the piano, to fall in love with the piano, so the pianist plays for the people. He will improve for the sake of the people.

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“Fallen” Gardens at Nara Temple 2017

Taking the example of my self, I enjoy doing is photography. I know that every picture I take wouldn’t be considered as a master piece, and it be along while till I achieve success as a photographer. But I still do it because it gives me satisfaction and at the same time I would like people see the world through my lens. In another aspect, I know my self won’t be a perfect supervisor. Leadership bears a lot of problems, sacrifice, and hardship. But the reward of leading a group of people to success out ways all of that. I want to continuous improve my self as leader to continuous create success in other people. Striving for perfection seems futile, but striving for improvement, makes the purpose in our lives a bit more meaningful.

It goes back to why should we be doing a job, task, or responsibility? Does it contribute to our overall general goal? Will it improve me?