A non-SR way to conserve keystrokes
Jon Udell, a long-time technology writer who I remember from Byte days, tried speech recognition a few years ago after suffering from RSI. He recovered, but the real lesson he learned from the experience was the importance of keystroke conservation: making sure each act of typing has as much return on investment (ROI) as possible. His advice? blog instead of email. I find that happening all the time at work, when we send 1:1 email replies to people asking questions about our products. Why do we respond with email when so many more people will benefit if you post to a blog?
I miss Robert Scoble (whose position Jon now fills, though in a different capacity). Robert's transparency, both at Microsoft and now afterwards, gives him a huge ROI on his keystrokes. It often feels like Robert never actually uses email because anything you want to know from him you can see on his blog.