De-Googling
I work in IT.
To those who know me that statement is obvious. It's a pretty fundamental part of who I am. They would then also know how much I hate having to do something.
I spend all day having to fix Janet in Finance's headphones, to then come home to my Bluetooth earbuds doing the same thing. This is really what started me here.
I'd always been an Android user, but the allure of earbuds that just worked (As much as that makes me cringe to say) was what turned me to the dark side.
It's as a part of this swap that I first really started taking the idea of disconnecting myself from Google seriously. A thought that each year grew in the back of my mind, made stronger with each service shut down and moved to the graveyard by Silicon-Billionaires chasing that extra decimal place every quarter.
Of course I can't ignore the hypocrisy of selling my soul at the Steve Jobs alter, only to turn around and preach as if I'm mightier than though. But in my mind I'd rather a company be evil and tell me, than Google just be bad at it.
I'm about a year into that change. Where do I start...