Interview with Workspaces
Workspaces is a beautiful collection of desk setups, curated by Ryan Gilbert.
My home office was featured in Edition 335, and picked up by a bunch of different sites and social accounts afterwards. In total a few hundred thousand people saw pictures of the space—which is pretty cool and a little weird.
I shot the photos on a Canon 5D Mark III using 24mm f/1.4L II and 100mm f/2.8L lenses.
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What is your favorite item in your workspace?
A polaroid of my mum’s mum, or license plate from my dad’s dad.
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How do you spark creativity?
Creativity is more of a background thread for me; it’s generally there, chewing on a task or problem set, periodically returning ideas for the conscious mind to test or validate.
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How do you manage work-life balance?
No strict rules—there’s push and pull there, and I think that’s ok. It should be ok to put in a few extra hours when a project needs help, but it should also be ok to take an unplanned afternoon off to savour the last long days of summer.
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What do you think is the main benefit of remote work?
Subtracting geography from the hiring equation helps create more diverse and meritocratic teams.
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Workspace hardware:
- Apple Macbook Pro
- Apple Studio Display
- Herman Miller Action Office desk base with plywood top
- Herman Miller Aeron
- Leuchtturm1917 A5 dotted notebook
- Shure SM7B microphone
- Universal Audio Apollo Solo interface
- IsoAcoustics ISO Stands
- Yamaha HS80M & HS10W monitors
- ZSA Moonlander keyboard w/MT3 Susuwatari keycaps
Additional items:
- 600/P table lamps designed by Gino Sarfatti
- Model 42 side chairs designed by Kai Kristiansen
- Modular bookcases designed by Peter Hvidt and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen
- Oil painting by Chris Simonite
- Wurtlizer 200 electric piano
After the interview was published, Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk generously offered to send me a monitor stand and some other products from their Gather collection—thus ending my mistreatment of coffee table books… for now.
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