Samuel ArbesmanInterview
Writer, complexity scientist
Adapted from Samuel Arbesman's interview on Uses This, published 4 June 2013. 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 primary computer is an 11-inch MacBook Air with 4 gigs of RAM.
I also have a 13-inch MacBook from 2007 that is nearly decommissioned, but aside for a battery that's dead, works well.
And I have an iPhone 4S.
This late adoption is prevalent in most of my technological life when it comes to hardware: I got a Kindle five years after its release and only got a DVD player when it was given to me for free.
Communication
Productivity
For shorter popular writing, I use Microsoft Word.
I use NetNewsWire for the rapidly dwindling number of RSS feeds that I still follow (fewer than ten), as Twitter has supplanted my webpage discovery process.
Notes
Coding & Development
I was recently introduced to Sublime Text 2, which is supposed to be amazing, though I haven't yet gotten the hang of it.
And for longer writing projects, such as books, I use Scrivener.
Design
Other
For my management of citations and bibliography, I use Mendeley, which is a really good free program that can work with both Word and LaTeX.