Lotus 123 was still the marketshare leader in spreadsheets until the early 90's. It's funny. When I joined Lotus in the early 80's people would ask me if it was some kind of yoga company.

Then from the mid-80's until the late 80's we were almost like Google is today – everyone knew about us. I went back to my small hometown in Kansas in 1988 and because I was from Lotus I was treated like a returning hero.

Then, of course, Micrsoft took over office applications and IBM acquired Lotus. Now when I tell people I used to work for Lotus they ask "was that some kind of yoga company?"

Steve

Yet you've hit on the irony of this pursuit of the best tool – once the tool moves from early adopters to the mass market, everyone winds up working harder and faster to remain competitive in other ways.

There is a tool that will stop all this nonsense, at least temporarily. It's a tool I like to call "the weekend". Well, sometimes..