At a Yankees spring training game years ago, I sat beside a colleague who had played baseball at Dartmouth. We happened to be working across the street from the field, and it was an easy lunch break diversion.
For me, the game was light entertainment: sun, chatter, crack of the bat. For him, it was something else entirely. He could see where the fielders were shifting before a pitch. He could predict the breaking ball about to come, how a batter’s stance telegraphed his intentions. He wasn’t just watching baseball; he was reading a coded language written across the diamond...
Remember when you tried dictation? Maybe it was Siri transcribing your text messages, or that ambitious afternoon when you installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking, convinced you'd finally write that novel hands-free. How long did that last?
For most knowledge workers, dictation has been a spectacular failure. We've just been doing dictation completely wrong.
