![]() ![]() Would I use it if my work wasn’t paying for its painful $30/month subscription? Probably not. After successfully avoiding the Superhuman hype for a long time, I eventually caved and tried it out. This year saw the biggest change to my email that I’ve had in a long time. Previous YearsĢ017: Not recorded, but probably Overcast My goal is to interact with my podcast player as little as possible so long as the UX doesn’t get in the way of that goal, I’m happy. It hasn’t gotten any sort of visual refresh in a long time, but I honestly haven’t been bothered by that. I’m a huge fan of its simplicity and reliability. I’ve been all in on Overcast basically since the day it came out. A major sign that things have gotten more stable with my Spotify usage is that I find myself looking forward to the Discover Weekly playlist update every Monday. This year, for the first time in a long time, I’ve been almost entirely in the Spotify camp. I’d go for a few months using Apple Music (whose design and UX I tend to prefer) and then I’d switch to Spotify (whose recommendations are far better). Spotify and Apple Music have been locked in a pretty even battle for my attention for the entirety of the time they’ve co-existed. I’ll probably end up trying Chrome as my default on iOS sometime soon, just to see if having it be the same everywhere is worth it. So, it looks like I’m going to be splitting time between Chrome on macOS and Safari on iOS (for now). Recently my work has taken me into the world of crypto and one of the first things I learned is that Safari couldn’t be my daily driver and also my default crypto browser. That is, however, until the past couple weeks. Sure, every once in a while I hit some sort of weird wrinkle on a website and need to fire up my backup installation of Chrome, but 99% of the time Safari is what I reach for to surf the web. It’s hard to beat Safari for integration with the operating system, privacy, and overall speed. Most of the year, as it has been basically every year I’ve done this, my browser across all devices has been Safari. I hope nothing breaks and I can just go through the entirety of next year with this exact setup. Nothing about this needs to change in 2022. Logitech Webcam (2019) & Blue Yeti mic on a boom (2019) With those preliminary thoughts out of the way, let’s dive into an area by area breakdown of what I’m using and how I’m feeling about it. Considering my overall trajectory of reducing and simplifying my hardware stack wherever possible, do I even need an iPad? The past year is telling me that I obviously don’t. At this point, if I’m going to get a new iPad Pro I should probably just wait for whatever the new one will be. That’s partly because Apple hasn’t released a new iPad Pro that felt like enough of an update to justify buying it. I gave away my iPad Pro to a family member early in the year and haven’t replaced it. My hardware is not a bottleneck in my productivity in any way and while it’s fun to have the latest and greatest, I’d rather focus on the work I can accomplish with the tools rather than the tools themselves. ![]() That feels right for where I am in my life right now. To be clear, I’m not exactly using ancient gear here (M1 MacBook Air, iPhone 12 Pro Plus, Apple Watch Series 6) but I’m not the absolute bleeding edge, either. That means I successfully made it through the most dangerous time of the year for an Apple fan, the fall product releases, without replacing anything in my setup. While it’s certainly a good practice to be deliberate with the tools I choose to learn and use, this is also my attempt to get my tool stack feeling as solid as possible before heading into the next year so I don’t waste my time fiddling with it later.Ī few general thoughts, before diving into a more detailed breakdown:Īs I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been leaning into not replacing my core technology as frequently as I have in the past. ![]() Most years ( 2017, 2018, 2019) I like to take a look back at the tools I found myself using and reflect on the extent to which I’m satisfied with them. ![]()
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