Derek SiversInterview
TED speaker, founder of CD Baby
Adapted from Derek Sivers's interview on Uses This, published 5 December 2011. 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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Google Nexus One phone (free gift from TED Conference).
I've been living out of a carry-on bag for a few years, until recently, so the less, the better.
Communication
Lastly, I also use Skype, but hope that someday I could use a command-line VoIP app instead.
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
I do almost everything in the terminal and Vim.
Media
Other
I love love LOVE Arch Linux.
I switched to FreeBSD, which I still love, but missed having Flash for YouTube.
I used Ubuntu for a while, but it felt too hand-holdy, too much stuff pre-installed, like those awful Windows computers where the manufacturer has installed a bunch of crap in advance "for your convenience".
For learning Chinese, I use the awesome Wenlin.
For learning anything, I use the awesome Anki, which I love so much I donated $500 to.
(The author wrote me back, thinking it must have been a PayPal mistake.) For learning Chinese in Anki, I use the great Pinyin Toolkit.