Jeremy WortsmanInterview
Founder of The Jacky Winter Group
Adapted from Jeremy Wortsman's interview on Uses This, published 19 December 2017. 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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Bose QC30's are my sanity maker, and are probably in my ears at least half the day.
All our desks are standing desks - some of them manual WorkFit-D units from Ergotron, and some electronic ones from IKEA - all with custom tops.
Communication
We also have a suite of custom-made web apps that we use - some built into our WordPress setup, some totally bespoke.
Productivity
I live and die by my RSS feeds via Newsblur.
Browser
Notes
We manage our internal wiki and documentation in Evernote.
Security
Coding & Development
Media
Overcast on iOS for podcasts, where I listen to everything at 2x.
Droplr is indispensable for screenshots and markup.
Storage
We use Synology units for local file access, with their great cloud sync feature so we can keep portfolios updated via Dropbox.
Wunderlist is our to-do manager for everything internal.
Other
We use Envoy at our reception desk to announce visitors and handle couriers.
Of course, this is why I endorse the Insight Timer app for 2x 30 minute meditation sessions per day, so I can try to forget about said hardware and software.