Felix SalmonInterview
Chief financial correspondent (Axios)
Adapted from Felix Salmon's interview on Uses This, published 19 October 2018. 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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I admit in that piece that I once believed in the tenet that "buying Apple hardware is an even better investment than buying Apple stock." I don't believe that any more, even though I still use Apple hardware exclusively, as I have done since I bought my beloved LC II in 1992.
I always use the Apple extended keyboard, which I love, and either an Apple mouse or an Apple trackpad, I think the mouse is better but for some reason I have a trackpad in my home office.
The phone is a black T-Mobile 128GB iPhone 7, which I use naked (without any kind of case).
I also have a black AT&T 128GB iPad mini 2, which is a clunky horrible thing and slow as molasses.
I loved that thing, but I went out and bought a new Thule Paramount, and I really love it - I should listen to my wife more often.
My best big hardware purchase was undoubtedly my Jarvis standing desk, which singlehandely cured me of a really nasty pain across the back of my shoulders.
I also have a manual FlexiSpot device that sits on top of my desk at work, which isn't nearly as sleek or lovely.
Eames Aluminum Group Lounge Chair
I'm always promising myself that I should read more books, and I have the perfect device for doing so: an Eames Aluminum Group lounge chair with ottoman.
I've put a little circular side table next to it which is perfect for a glass of wine or whisky, alongside an Artemide Tolomeo floor lamp; it's my own little corner of modernist bliss.
Communication
Productivity
Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS.
Browser
Notes
Security
There are very few pieces of software I really love, but 1Password comes close.