Part two of our remote work episodefocused more on the day to day tools and processes that we use to work remotely.
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How we work - some nerding out?
https://usesthis.com/interviews/clay.shirky/
https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
https://joplinapp.org/
https://medium.com/@LauraHilliger/tabby-mctabface-3bff8661ef70
https://ifttt.com
Our gear for the podcast
Laura
- Focusrite preamp: https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-2i2-studio
- Speakers: Tannoy
- Sony Bluetooth headphones
Doug
-Blue Snowball mic
-Anker headphones
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"That having been said, I actually don't want a "dream setup." I know people who get everything in their work environment just so, but current optimization is long-term anachronism. I'm in the business of weak signal detection, so at the end of every year, I junk a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones.
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Some of those changes stick, most don't, but since every tool switch involves a period of disorientation and sub-optimal use, I have to make myself be willing to bang around with things I don't understand until I do understand them. This is the opposite of a dream setup; the thing I can least afford is to get things working so perfectly that I don't notice what's changing in the environment anymore." (Clay Shirky)