You wouldn’t paint your house with a watercolor brush, and you probably wouldn’t cook a four-course gourmet dinner using only your toaster oven. We recognize that different projects call for different tools, even if they fall under the same basic umbrella of “painting” or “cooking.”
Yet that recognition fails when it comes to one pervasive aspect of our working lives: writing. Whether we’re jotting down a meeting note, writing a memo or drafting a 100-page report, we most often turn to that good old workhorse, the word processor.