I'm a big fan of technologies that have steeper learning curves, but pay dividends over time. Examples are: Emacs, Lisp, XMonad, git, my Kinesis Advantage keyboard, swype, etc. It's nice when technologies are user friendly or obvious to use immediately (like Quicksilver), but If it's something I'll be using all the time I go for long-term efficiently over early user-friendliness.
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I'm a big fan of technologies that have steeper learning curves, but pay dividends over time. Examples are: Emacs, Lisp, XMonad, git, my Kinesis Advantage keyboard, swype, etc. It's nice when technologies are user friendly or obvious to use immediately (like Quicksilver), but If it's something I'll be using all the time I go for long-term efficiently over early user-friendliness.
Are you a colemak or dvorak user?
I agree with you on all of those items. It's a little scary, actually.