[Autosave is for Wimps]

[Autosave is for Wimps]

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Neither digital native nor mired in analogue cement: I’m the adaptive generation

Neither digital native nor mired in analogue cement: I’m the adaptive generation

Those knobbly bits on the side of your phone? They’re ‘buttons’, matey

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“Don’t they teach you anything at school?”

This was a refrain often heard by those of my generation when we were starting out in the job market. It was always delivered by those with seniority over oneself in both experience and years – i.e. some crumpled old failure stinking of cigarettes an…

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