Justin DukeInterview
Founder/CEO (Buttondown)
Adapted from Justin Duke's interview on Uses This, published 26 February 2024. 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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We both sit on IKEA JÄRVFJÄLLET chairs, which are not Aeron-level luxury but very comfortable for the price.
Blue Yeti mic for recording tutorials and podcast interviews
A Steam Deck docked on the official dock (current obsession: Tiny Rogues)
An Anker Foldable for charging whichever various device I forgot to charge last night
A humble Amazon Basics notepad and Muji 0.38mm where I jot down notes and to-dos throughout the day.
Communication
I’m founder and CEO of Buttondown, the easiest way for you to start and grow a newsletter.
Texts, so I can maintain some semblance of inbox zero
Productivity
Things, a perfect suite of GTD/todo-tracking software for iOS and MacOS
Notes
Obsidian (even more heavily customized), for longer-term notes and more scattered thinking
iA Writer, for drafting emails, essays, and proposals
Media
Mimestream, for the stuff that does have to live in my inbox
Other
HelpScout, a very good helpdesk/CRM tool that lets comms live outside my inbox without being imposed