This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's tip is about memorizing phone numbers. Yes, phone numbers. Hear me out. I worry a lot about the zombie apocalypse.

Imagine what it'll be like. The apocalypse is in full swing, power systems, internet connections, everything is starting to fall apart.

You decide to call your friends and loved ones to arrange a post-apocalyptic place to meet up and fight off the zombies, like a bowling alley.

Unfortunately, your cell phone is out of power, so you can't dial your friends from there.

You run to your desktop computer, launch a voiceover IP phone call,

but the power dies, because that's what always happens in zombie scenarios. Fortunately,

your roommate has a landline, which, as I'm sure you know, is powered from the phone line and

will often work in emergencies. You pick up their phone, and you have absolutely no idea

what anyone's phone number is. The zombies champel closer,

they swipe left on you. Connection is key in emergencies. This is not hypothetical. Category 5

Hurricane Maria totaled the American territory of Puerto Rico, leaving millions of Americans

with no power, no cell phones, no computers, and no social media access.

And in what seems to be the 21st century American tradition, rather than coming to the aid of our fellow citizens, we've basically collectively left them to die and struggle

to rebuild on their own.

But hey, otherwise, we'd have to put down our mobile devices and maybe miss Game of Thrones.

So it's definitely worth it.

The lesson for us, however, is that if the

zombie apocalypse hits our city, it's entirely possible that we'll be left to our own devices.

And if our devices are out of power, we'll need to use someone else's, and their devices don't

have our phone books built in. Memorize important phone numbers. This is why you need to memorize your most important phone numbers.

You want to have them available whether or not you have use of your own phone, your own computer, or access to the cloud.

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