If you can’t type well, you’re inarticulate.

A message I emphasize to my students: learn how to use the tools of your trade as well as possible. So, for god’s sake, if you don’t know how to “track changes” in your word processing program, learn how. If you don’t know how to unjam the photocopy machine you use regularly, learn how. Matthew Homan has good advice in this vein on Twitter, advice I’ve been trying to get through to my son — learn how to type well:

The keyboard is now the optimal communication tool of your life. Typing < 60wpm is like talking w/your mouth full of marbles.