"The thing I always carry with me — usually in my left front pocket — is a little snub-nosed two-gigabyte thumb drive. I picked it up at a conference a couple of years ago — I can’t remember where. And the printing on it has eroded so it’s impossible to see which organization had stored its p.r. pitch on it.
"... So why schlep around a little piece of plastic and metal that can only contain a bunch of documents and no video? Why pull it out at airports, put it in the same place at my desk every night, and endure the paranoia of feeling like it is lost a few times a week?
"This isn’t where I store personal files, or photos, or videos. No, the drive is almost
exclusively for long-term projects, the kind that are difficult to get to in a day consumed
by tweeting, posting on social media, writing short columns, editing other people’s work,
sitting in meetings, and thinking deep thoughts."
Source: LinkedIn