Jack ChengInterview
Writer, designer (Disrupto, Memberly)
Adapted from Jack Cheng's interview on Uses This, published 16 January 2012. 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 sit in an orange Karim Rashid molded plastic Oh Chair that faces a window looking out onto sky, trees, and the tops of nearby apartment buildings.
The bedroom desk is a CB2 console that's just one long slab of clear 3/4" thick acrylic bent into the shape of an upside-down 'U'.
The chair is a red leather Crate and Barrel side chair in the shape of a lowercase 'h'.
It has a lever that lets you put it into standing mode, which I rarely take advantage of because my Knoll Generation task chair is so damn comfortable.
My year-old 15" matte screen MacBook Pro floats between the three epicenters.
Nylon Compact Backpack+ 1 other
I lug the laptop to and from work in a black Incase Compact Backpack.
At the office I plug into a 23" Samsung LED display, which I never think I need but am always glad to have.
I recently bought a Nikon D5100 with a 50mm f/1.8 manual focus lens.
Communication
Productivity
Alfred is another app that falls into that so-essential-I-almost-forgot-it's-not-part-of-the-operating-system category.
I use Taskpaper to keep a more formal list of daily to-dos, but it also houses 'someday' lists, like events in the city and ideas for things to write about in my daily journaling.
Notes
For writing, I use iA Writer and keep a document, filenamed according to date, open at all times in a separate full-screen space.
Coding & Development
I use Scrivener for longer-form writing, which has a ton of features I don't need but a few that are really spectacular.