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Technology is neither your friend nor your enemy. Stop expecting it to care. Stop making yourself feel bad.

Making threats, offering bribes, or speaking calmly will not solve your tech issues. Nor will crying.

Even crayons, typewriters, and pieces of paper are types of technology. Why do we give computers personality?

Decide, consciously and purposively, how much you are willing to trust to technology. Me, I keep notebooks.

Technology has never been a writer's friend. Dorothy Parker complained that she knew so little about the typewriters on which she relied for a living that she once "bought a new one because I couldn’t change the ribbon on the one I had."

I started this piece two months ago, but I lost it. Like Villon’s snows of yesteryear or the cousin who owed me money, the words just disappeared. So beleaguered was I by a sense of futility, self-loathing, and obsolescence, I hadn’t been able to face the thought of resurrecting the argument until today. Emails, Facebook, and LinkedIn were easy because they didn’t demand much of me, but the possibility of creating something new only to have it vanish without a trace was, I realized, causing me a far deeper sense of anxiety than I wanted to acknowledge.

I was feeling like Parker: I wanted to buy a new computer, one that wouldn’t betray me by assuming I’d be........

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