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.

I’ve been locked in as a Mac user for 20 years. The M1 chips are amazing. Honestly my computer is overkill and I could get away with having a MacBook Air.

Small phone life. Hopefully they keep making them.

The iPad gets used as a second monitor but also for drawing things on. Using it as a second display is amazing, but also incredibly frustrating.

[LOCKED IN] There’s a $10 per month plan if you work for non-profits. It’s really good.

[NEUTRAL] I switched to Fantastical because it supported creating events more naturally from the keyboard on my Mac, but I’m not sure that it’s better than the default calendar. It’s backed by Google Calendar.

[NEUTRAL] I think 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.

[HAPPY] I started using Linear to track software development tasks for postpostcard.com, and so far I’m loving it

[LOCKED IN] Notion has gotten better over the years and now I used it for many things, including powering the website that you’re reading now.

[LOCKED IN] Happy with my setup here. I also use GitHub Copilot.

Last updated @March 30, 2023

[EXPERIMENTING] I’ve been using Chrome exclusively with lots of profiles, but I’m currently testing out Arc as my personal browser.

[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.