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⛏ Always refining productivity tools

Khem Raj November 10, 2025 #meta

There are two camps, one hardly change the tools used for achieving productivity. Same terminal, same browser, same desktop layout. for decades.

Second camp is continuously looking to better the tools kitty with a better tool, change editors often, hopping Linux distributions, change shells, terminals at a whim.

Both approaches have there strengths and weaknesses. Getting locked with environment provides a known working set of tools and can build solutions using the reliable tools and knowing nook and corners of using them. On the other hand, changing tools frequently while is investment of time in learning them, it has a potential of discovering a tool which can give 10x returns, but does that happen in real life, rarely. One definitive positive is that one is always learning new tools and learning is good.

Which camp do you identify with?