QWERTY 
You might recognize the non-word from your keyboard. It has come to be the name of the standard layout of most letter input devices. Once upon a time, it was the standard for typewriters and so it also found its way onto the personal computer. Now even your smartphone text layout is the same.
Ever wonder why?
It not because it is the best way to type. In fact, it is the worse way! The inventor of the layout Christopher Sholes consulted an educator to find out the most common letter pairs in the English language and then spilt them as far apart on the keyboard. This was to slow down the typist. The layout prevented jams in the typewriter so the machine could operate at a consistent speed, not a faster one.
Now we don’t have to worry about jams but the
layout hasn’t changed. There have been better layouts built and proven to be
faster and more efficient yet we can’t seem to make the change over from what
has always been the standard.
People have a hard time letting go of
something they have always done even if something better comes along. It’s foolish
but it common. The writer of Hebrews
sees it in the response to the New Covenant over Old Law. Time and time again as he is showing the
better way Christ has brought, he stops to warn his readers to not fall back in
old ways. There is a real danger in staying in the status quo. You never move on to
something better.
It’s hard to change
even when it is better. It is easy to keep doing what you done even if it takes
you nowhere. However, ease isn’t our ally. There may be some growing pains but
that means we are growing not ‘shrinking
back to destruction’. Tried and true might be making us died and thru.
Instead of thinking about
what do I always do, let’s think about how much more I could be doing.
Comments
Post a Comment