My Personal Technology
At it’s best, technology can be a tool for collaborative thought, communication, & friendship. It can also help you deal with BS more efficiently so you have more time for those other things. This document is intended to document my personal technology stack, mostly for my own purposes so that I know what I’m doing. I have a philosophy of liberally spending money on technology that will help me communicate, and being excruciating frugal in other areas.
Hardware
Macbook Pro 14” // iPhone 15 Pro // iPad Pro 11”
I’ve been locked in as a Mac user for 20 years. The M-series chips are amazing. Honestly my computer is overkill and I could get away with having a MacBook Air. I got the matte display because I work outside all the time.
I miss the small phone life.
The iPad gets used as a second monitor but also for drawing things on. Using it as a second display is pretty great.
Superhuman
[LOCKED IN] It’s really fricking good. There’s a $10 per month plan if you work for non-profits.
Calendar
Notion Calendar
[NEUTRAL] I switched to Notion calendar because it has a nice availability thing.
Soonlist
[HYPED] I use Soonlist to track all of the events that I might want to go to
Todo
Todoist
[NEUTRAL] Every so often, I start just tracking everything in my head again and I really want to not do that. I’ve been defaulting to using my brain for reminders. I want to use something that’s easy to use and I think that since I have the most experience with Todoist that it’ll be a good thing. After 3 months I think that it has been helpful, but I think that I need to establish a practice of checking it regularly.
Issue tracking
Linear
[HAPPY] I started using Linear to track software development tasks for soonlist.com, and so far I’m loving it
Notes
Apple Notes (capture) + Notion (long-term)
Notion is too heavyweight when I’m creating something new I don’t want to think about where it goes. I also want to be able to capture everywhere.
Code
Cursor
[HYPED] Honestly a game changer. I’m also testing Ghosty
Browser
Finicky + Arc + Chrome
Last updated in 2024
[HAPPY] I’m using Arc and it’s pretty good. I guess they are going to retire it though
Music
Apple Music
[LOCKED IN] I was very early on streaming music. I use Apple Music because of the integration with the Apple ecosystem and I can listen to my personal music collection of things that aren’t available for streaming & streaming music in one place.