365 Days of Productivity
Tool or Toy? Three Weeks Living With an Echo Dot
Is it a useful device for freelancers or just another toy for adults?
Please note that this article primarily discusses the Echo Dot from Amazon. This piece contains no affiliate marketing or other commercial links. Beyond what few meager pennies I may get from Medium’s Partnership Program, no one is paying me for this post.
Like many people this past holiday season, I received an Amazon Echo Dot.
Welcome to living in the future.
I’ve wanted one of these for a while. A lot of friends had one or something similar and seemed to enjoy them. From what I knew of the Dot previous to owning one, I knew I could listen to music and get recipe suggestions and weather updates and the like. Still, because productivity has been on my mind a lot lately, I wondered how well an Echo Dot would serve me as a work-related tool.
It’s been three weeks since I’ve first asked, “Alexa, what is love?”
Here are my thoughts on owning the Amazon Echo Dot.
The elephant in the room — privacy
The first draft of this article included a lengthy discussion on the privacy issues…
