This week: crafting a great workspace for, erm, work.
## A Comfortable and Performant Place to Work
It’s been a while since I talked about office setups — since COVID when I mostly was talking about getting good quality lighting for the endless fucking video calls we spent our lives on. Anyways, since moving to Boulder I have encountered one of the hardest home office setups of all: a dark office. I have not had an office this dark since 2015, and to put that into perspective, that’s when I switched to iPad Pro full time, and when the iPad Pro was new. So it’s been a bit.
I’ve been fortunate through the remainder of the houses I’ve lived in that there’s been fantastic light pouring into the office spaces I worked in — good natural light can make all the difference to the quality of your space.
It’s been five months of me working through this, struggling, and finally piecing together a solid setup. So, rather than talk about the specific gear I used to do this, I thought I would talk about how I craft a home office which is cozy, and great to work in.
### Philosophy & Goal
Let’s start with the philosophy and the goal side, as not everyone shares the same things here. Perhaps your goal is to keep as small a footprint as possible, or to craft the most Instragrammable space — there’s no wrong goal. Likewise perhaps your philosophy is strict minimalism, or perhaps you thrive in the chaos of things around you — what works for one doesn’t work for all.
Which is to say, most of this is only helpful if you also agree with my philosophy and goals for the setup.
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