Category: How-To

I’ve tried every productivity hack the internet has to offer. Color-coded calendars. Fancy to-do apps with AI prioritization. Browser extensions that block social media. None of them stuck — because every single one lives on the same device that’s busy lighting up with Slack notifications and email chimes. Six months ago, I bought a $30 …

I’ve spent the last month carrying four different e-ink tablets everywhere — coffee shops, client meetings, my couch, even a red-eye flight from JFK to San Francisco. My wife thought I’d lost it when I lined them all up on the kitchen table like some kind of digital paper museum. But after years of typing …

I’ll be honest with you. When the standing desk trend first exploded a few years back, I rolled my eyes. I’d been testing hardware for two decades, and I’d seen enough “revolutionary” office gadgets to last a lifetime. Every ergonomic fad promises to transform your workday, and most end up gathering dust in a closet …

I’ve rebuilt my desk setup more times than I care to count. New monitors, different keyboards, upgraded laptops, a rotating cast of peripherals — and every single time, the cables won. They’d spill out from behind the desk like intestinal overflow, tangling into a mess that made me reluctant to even reach back there. If …

I spent six years hunched over a 13-inch laptop screen, telling myself it was fine. My neck said otherwise. My productivity said otherwise. And my optometrist — after I showed up with tension headaches I’d been dismissing as “just stress” — really said otherwise. The monitor upgrade I’d been putting off turned out to be …

I spent the better part of two decades working under whatever overhead fluorescent light happened to be installed in whatever office I was sitting in. Never gave it a second thought. Then I went full-time remote, set up a desk in a spare bedroom with a single north-facing window, and within six months my optometrist …