It's becoming increasingly obvious to me that the majority of people don't use the right tools in their professional lives.  I can understand that most people aren't as excited about trying out new technology as I am, and it seems reasonable for these people to stick to what they know in their personal lives.

There is no excuse for this when it comes to your job.  Even if you love what you do, it's still work and the main point is to either make as much money as you can or to make enough money while having little impact on the rest of your life.  In either case, what excuse do you have for not using everything at your disposal to increase your production?

I know a number of people who do nothing but sell things to consumers all day.  They work mostly independently and are responsible for their own processes and operations.  These people for the most part use some combination of excel, post-its and notebooks to store all their important information.

These people could without a doubt be much more effective sales people if they upgraded their tools.  Whatever the cost is of leaning a new system, it would easily be worth it given the opportunity cost of the current system.

Anyway, I just think we should all stop and think every once in a while.  Think about the ten most tedious, error prone, or inefficient aspects of your work life.  Chances are good there's a way to fix a couple of them by simply changing your tools.  

I'm not exempt either.  I need to figure out how I can get SVN version control and FTP deployment out of my life for good.