Okay, I was sitting in my office one day multitasking. You know, that word that only really entered into common vernacular in the last oh decade or so. I had multiple programs running on my computer…email, web browser, Bible software, Word Processor, to-do task list and a few books open on my desk. In between making phone calls I was reading my email and separating the “wheat from the chaff” so to speak. Oh, and I was drinking a coffee too.

On the way home that day I was just drifting in thought thinking about all the things that technology has enabled me to do (probably not a good idea while behind the wheel by the way) and then started internally debating whether this technology has made me any more productive.

“Productive” is such a relative term isn’t it? It’s definition can’t really be pinned down to any one set of criteria since for different people in different circumstances the qualification of what constitutes productivity could have such a wide variety of standards and has too much dependence on the perspective of the person evaluating. For example: A greenhouse operator and environment aficionado might see a day planting trees as productive whereas a logger would see a day cutting down trees as productive. Who is the productive one? It depends on your perspective.