David PierceInterview
Editor-at-Large (Protocol)
Adapted from David Pierce's interview on Uses This, published 31 December 2019. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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At home, a Mac mini (the base model but with more RAM, which is the only upgrade most people need) hooked up to some 24-inch Dell monitor I found on Amazon.
I even have Logitech speakers, because apparently I love Logitech products?
For work I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro, which doesn't last long enough and boy I hate that keyboard, but it's what they gave me at work.
I travel everywhere with the most recent iPad Air hooked up to a Brydge keyboard.
I have an iPhone 11 Pro, about which I have no feelings.
I also have the new Google Pixel 4, in that awesome orange color, which is...
I use an Audio Technica ATR2100 mic for podcasting, which is equally great for the price.
I have a Sony ICD-UX560 voice recorder (Sony, the names, come on), because the Wirecutter recommended it and the Wirecutter is never wrong.
(I'm suddenly realizing I have too many headphones.) There are also a half-dozen UE Boom speakers of various sizes and colors floating around my apartment, because they are the best and apparently because I love spending money on more ways to play music?
My favorite recent purchase is a Jabra Speak 510, which is a big round speakerphone that looks like something you'd find on a conference room table.
I read on a Kindle Paperwhite, because reading books on phones is the worst.
When I write with a pen, which is rarely, I write it in Studio Neat's wonderful Totebook notebook, and carry everything around in an Away Daypack that I just bought and still have mixed feelings about.
Communication
Twitter for quickly killing my phone's battery.
Productivity
Instapaper for saving articles I may or may not ever read.
Browser
Beyond that, I basically live in Chrome.
I should switch back to Firefox.
Notes
I've been a Notion user for the last couple of years, and love so much about the app - but it's so slow!
Security
Coding & Development
Media
Other
The OneTab extension is the only reason Chrome is usable at all.