Shortform #105 Wow, desks are great | Setting up my home office
I went to Costco with two friends today and picked up three six-foot long folding tables that are sold there. Just for a sanity test, I sat on one of the tables and it fully bore my weight, thus I felt comfortable putting on the ~100 pounds of equipment I have on one of them now. It is very nice to have desks and workbench space instead of working from the floor, oof. I’ve got four / five of my monitors setup, but the last one (an old Wacom drawing tablet) needs a display adapter to function, I’ll pick that up from somewhere online most likely.
It’s been so long since I had a proper desk setup & an office to myself, I’m ecstatic for the workflows, projects, and fun things I’ll be able to get up to now that I have 18 horizontal feet of desk real estate and a proper office! My use-cases:
Immortality & longevity focused Substack writing with all the research & analysis that that entails
Rationalist meetup organizing: working off of just a laptop was way too painful, I can’t wait to use the extra screen real estate, computational oomph, and tools to improve my meetup organizing capabilities.
Music production (yay for having a synthesizer / keyboard specific setup too)
Video production, mostly for YouTube.
Learning drawing and minor art production via the aforementioned Wacom tablet.
Improving my IT skills since that’s still my main profession: I now have the space to setup networking gear, servers, and other things to use in production plus learn on.
Building out ones creative studio space, workbench area, and so on feels amazing, I’m glad I have the opportunity to do these things now. Time to create good things :)
Shortform #105 Wow, desks are great | Setting up my home office
I went to Costco with two friends today and picked up three six-foot long folding tables that are sold there. Just for a sanity test, I sat on one of the tables and it fully bore my weight, thus I felt comfortable putting on the ~100 pounds of equipment I have on one of them now. It is very nice to have desks and workbench space instead of working from the floor, oof. I’ve got four / five of my monitors setup, but the last one (an old Wacom drawing tablet) needs a display adapter to function, I’ll pick that up from somewhere online most likely.
It’s been so long since I had a proper desk setup & an office to myself, I’m ecstatic for the workflows, projects, and fun things I’ll be able to get up to now that I have 18 horizontal feet of desk real estate and a proper office! My use-cases:
Immortality & longevity focused Substack writing with all the research & analysis that that entails
Rationalist meetup organizing: working off of just a laptop was way too painful, I can’t wait to use the extra screen real estate, computational oomph, and tools to improve my meetup organizing capabilities.
Music production (yay for having a synthesizer / keyboard specific setup too)
Video production, mostly for YouTube.
Learning drawing and minor art production via the aforementioned Wacom tablet.
Improving my IT skills since that’s still my main profession: I now have the space to setup networking gear, servers, and other things to use in production plus learn on.
Building out ones creative studio space, workbench area, and so on feels amazing, I’m glad I have the opportunity to do these things now. Time to create good things :)