Peter MattessiInterview
TV screenwriter (EastEnders, Neighbours)
Adapted from Peter Mattessi's interview on Uses This, published 16 April 2019. 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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My current one is a mid-2014 Retina MacBook Pro.
When I'm at home I put it on a Griffin stand and use an external keyboard and mouse and this is something I do care about.
I have an iPhone 8 and of course it is indispensable but I wish I wasn't so reliant on it.
So I bought a Nokia 3310 to take on holidays and for when I didn't want to be distracted and it was so annoying to use that I never looked at it so that's a win.
I have Bose noise cancelling headphones which are honestly the best work investment I have ever made and incredible on the plane.
In my study at home I have a record player (this one) which is nice.
I read on a Kindle and think it is fantastic.
I write in them ONLY in pencil (Kuru Togas) because I love and miss writing.
Not strictly work, but a couple of years ago we bought a Yuba Mundo cargo bike to get the boys around and I have honestly never enjoyed anything more.
Freedom is the greatest piece of software I have ever bought and it literally changed my concentration patterns and thus my life.
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But usually I listen with iTunes and headphones or a Sonos.
I don't have Spotify because I turn the internet off to work and also maybe they shaft artists a bit?