{"id":13160,"date":"2010-09-05T10:33:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13160"},"modified":"2010-09-05T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:44:08","slug":"hi-my-name-is-jeff-and-im-a-techtard-hi-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13160\/hi-my-name-is-jeff-and-im-a-techtard-hi-jeff\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hi, My Name Is Jeff, and I’m a TechTard” – “Hi Jeff!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the day I was in a perpetual state of frustration when it came to pretty much anything hi-tech. Not only because I couldn’t use it, or that it almost always failed to deliver anything close to the multiple miracles promised, but because I simply couldn’t understand — at almost any level. Outside of the computer in general, obviously the all-time best hi-tech tool for real estate agents, most of the so-called technological breakthroughs have been anything but. <\/p>\n

I first used a computer effectively on the job back in 1987 or so. Leased an IBM 286 with a proprietary program installed. It allowed me to download property files via DataQuik using a phone connection. The only other task for which it had any value whatsoever was writing, and printing for mass direct mailings. The printer was a tractor feed. More fun than a hayride. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Lookin’ back, that piece a crap ‘puter was the best bang for the buck with which technology ever blessed me ’till about a decade later. You know the chronology after that. <\/p>\n

What’s really happened though in the last 15 years or so?<\/strong> Sure, a buncha software has made our jobs incrementally easier. Don’t mistake that last sentence to mean I’m downplaying the value of a lotta those ‘incremental’ timesavers — I’m not. But real bona fide breakthroughs? Show me. <\/p>\n

Agreed, getting leads online at the astounding rate some do, is indeed magnificent. <\/p>\n

I guess what I’m tryin’ to say, and poorly at that, is if we look back at technology’s so-called breakthroughs, they pretty much, with the obviously rare exceptions, mimic the invention of the backhoe. Shovels could be engineered to the nth degree. Digging techniques could be honed to efficient perfection. Backhoes did the work of many men, more quickly, and uniformly. Though the backhoe isn’t nearly as versatile as the computer, you get the idea.<\/p>\n

Here’s a technological game changer for me.<\/strong> My first set of hearing aids, bought five or six years ago, were digital, and pretty much state of the art back then. They reopened a world I’d almost forgotten. It was Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the day I was in a perpetual state of frustration when it came to pretty much anything hi-tech. Not only because I couldn’t use it, or that it almost always failed to deliver anything close to the multiple miracles promised, but because I simply couldn’t understand — at almost any level. 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