Setting Traps

If you leave your laptop in your backpack, and someone opens your backpack, pulls out your computer, and spills coffee on it, you would have every right to be angry at that person—for being not just foolish, but being aggressively so.

But if you leave your laptop on the floor, set casually on the side of the conference room, and someone walks in, doesn’t see it, and kicks your laptop into distinct pieces, well—they might actually have the right to be angry with you.

This is not just a truth about taking care of laptops—it’s about the courtesy you afford other people. 

To take reasonable care of your stuff, your self, your emotions, in such a way that you don’t accidentally set traps for other people to walk into. 

Thank you. Let’s have a great day.