hey tech late here and welcome back to
another episode today I am giving you a
desk tour now the centerpiece of the
desk tour is going to be my cup of tea
or coffee or whatever drink that I'm
usually drinking I believe in good
hydration wherever I'm at and so I will
always have a cup of water or some
liquid wherever I am sitting now a lot
of you may be imagining that I have some
insane desk setup but the reality is is
pretty simple
now don't let that simplicity throw you
off though this simplicity takes
actually many years to get right and a
lot of people end up buying tons of
random stuff that they don't really need
and it ends up just taking up a lot of
space using up a lot of energy just
complicating their lives and a lot of
this is not really needed and if you can
do it right you can get very simple desk
setup just the way I'm doing it now so
beyond the cup of tea that I might
always have the second thing that a lot
of people have been asking me about and
I want to highlight is this light and
this light is really going to be the
second centerpiece of my entire desk
setup it is probably the most expensive
thing I have here
okay now this light is amazing this is
the bank Yui reading light and I'll have
a link for this in the description below
along with links to all of the other
stuff that I'll be covering in this
video this light when I first got it I
must have said wow like audibly five
times or so because I was just
absolutely impressed by this light for a
long time I have been using just a
normal standard desk lamp
it was very dim yellow and it couldn't
cover a lot of area and it was just very
difficult to use and the evening when I
came home it was very difficult for me
to get any paperwork done because the
lighting is just so difficult to get
right this light is one of the things
that I wish I had gotten much earlier
and even though it's kind of expensive
comes in about $190 currently I think it
is worth every single penny so let me
tell you why I think it is so great so
first of all you can see that the angle
of this light is very good and they
specially designed this for the digital
era for computer usage such that it has
a wide angle of lighting area such that
it can provide you that and
like this light also has white balance
and you can tune it from say like a
daylight very white light
- like a yellowish tungsten light
whatever you need to match the ambient
light in your current room and it also
has a sensor such that it can detect the
white balance in your room and match
that you can also adjust the intensity
of the light to just perfectly match
whatever you need so overall this light
has just made me very productive I can
start doing paperwork in the evening
even in the daytime I just use it to
just brighten up my workspace and yeah
overall I just haven't been as impressed
with the product as this in a very long
time so yeah overall this light is great
it's fantastic I can highly recommend it
why don't we come in for a closer look
at my desk now the computer that I use
is a 15-inch MacBook Pro and it's great
the only problem is it's pretty
expensive so if you want you can think
about getting the 13-inch but for me the
15-inch is just big enough such that I
don't even need a monitor now let's take
a look at this keyboard the standard
MacBook Pro keyboard is fine it like
it's pretty usable actually and the
trackpad is pretty good too if I'm being
mobile then I'm going to just use these
and they're fine but sometimes when I
really want to type a lot and for
general better comfort I'm actually
going to take one of these magic
keyboards from Apple and just overlay it
and what I would do is I will run a
special program on my computer known as
carabiner and this program will
essentially disable the built-in
keyboard whenever it detects that
there's an external keyboard by
bluetooth being connected let me just
show you this other keyboard though this
is the bigger magic keyboard from Apple
and the funny thing is I believe that
these keys are actually better than the
smaller keyboard without the numpad I
actually use this at work where I do
even more typing so I keep the good one
at work and then when I'm at home I use
this one they're both very similar
actually but this one has even better
keep pressing distance so for you guys
out there who want to copy a similar
setup I actually recommend taking the
bigger keyboard with the keypad the keys
just feel really good on this and you
should know that I'm the type of guy who
has been traditionally extremely picky
with keyboards I will absolutely not
type on the normal keyboard and you know
I see a lot of other people out there
using like mechanical cue
in strange ergonomic keyboards and I
encourage you guys to give this one a
try because I think this is going to
solve all of your problems I mean I can
type extremely fast on this so I
recommend this one let me show you guys
the mouse that I use this is the mouse
that I use it is a Logitech M 500 and I
find that it works really well for me
actually and you may have noticed a few
things number one is corded and I
actually like cordetta mice because it
means that I don't have to mess around
with batteries I've tried the wireless
mice before it is kind of cleaner but
you just end up having a lot of
frustration until you figure out that
it's other batteries and then you can
switch the batteries out and you just
have to always carry around the extra
set batteries it's a complete pain and
overall it works fine the other great
thing is actually has these two buttons
on the side I programmed these to
correspond to brightness control so I
can easily change the brightness of the
screen and so I want to emphasize again
that lighting has been very important
for me I will always be adjusting the
brightness of the screen and so that is
why this light has been so impressive
for me I can use it to adjust the
ambient light around me and overall I
like the shape of it I like how its kind
of a large amount such that it fits my
hand and avoids having finger pain you
know we can take a look here another
mice this is the standard Apple Mouse
and contrary to what you might think
this mass has been actually a pretty
poor experience for me even though it's
like name-brand and everything from
Apple because it doesn't really match my
hand well so it ends up hurting my
fingers actually when I'm using it and
then it just doesn't have any buttons
really right it has like one or two
buttons or something like that
now I also mentioned I've also tried
Apple's trackpad before and that's even
worse it's essentially like just a flat
pad and you use it like a trackpad
pretty much like this and you know that
ergonomically is just pretty painful to
use and it's just hard to use it to do
anything why don't I show you what else
I have here so let's take a look at USB
cords okay now this is very interesting
to think about because this is something
I just recently actually began paying
attention to I have here a Vava USB C
hub and this one takes this one USB C
and expands into three USB ports you
also have HDMI you have Ethernet here
you have power input and then you have
memory card readers here so it seems
like it does a lot and then I have a
power cord here and you may be wondering
well why don't I just take this power
cord and plug it in to the power input
here which I can certainly do and now I
only have to plug this one thing in well
the reason I don't do that is because I
realized that this device will actually
limit the amount of power that is
available to the MacBook Pro Apple even
sells a very similar one where you can
plug the power into this USB C multi
port adapter the fact is that none of
these will sufficiently power a MacBook
Pro 15 the MacBook Pro 15 at least needs
87 watts of power these will give you
less than that like this will give you
60 watts I'm not 100% sure but I think
that your laptop will actually start
limiting its own performance so what I
like to do now is just give my laptop a
clean line of power and so what you want
to always be thinking about is the flow
of power and this is a USB 3 port it can
really only power one high powered USB 3
device so what are these three things
that I have connected here well one is a
standard lightning cable for say
charging iPhones one is another cable
for charging like my camera and so if I
were to plug in both the iPhone and my
camera at the same time both of them
aren't going to be getting enough power
and that might be okay you know if I'm
just charging them it will just take
longer
this last port I have connected to a USB
2 hub I don't really recommend this too
much because it's USB 2 this one expands
this port into three more hubs and the
only reason I do this is because I need
this micro USB key port and I use this
to download like audio files and stuff
and then from one of these I connected
to my mouse so that's my own USB port
setup is pretty strange you don't
necessarily need like this USB 2 port if
you don't need like all of this stuff
you could just plug the mouse tray then
this device is kind of nice because I
can use it to also put in memory cards
if I need to so it just does a lot so
look at my other accessories and the
I will have to your speed drives I might
pack everything up on to this one and
then once a month I will back everything
from this Drive on to a second drive so
I have two Oh backups I used my own
backup scripts using rsync and for those
of you who don't know what our sink is
it's essentially a copy but it can
detect which files already exist and are
the same and then avoid copying those so
it's ideal for making backups I sure the
script with you guys in the description
the other thing to note with USB cables
is just to make sure that you're paying
attention to USB 2 versus USB 3 like
when I was looking through my stuff I
realized that one of my USB C to USB
adapters was actually USB 2.0 and the
data speeds were just very slow taking a
look at my desk it's a standard Ikea
desk and it works fine for me and at
work I have a standing desk and for
those of you who may be wondering a lot
of people actually I've seen they may
have standing desks they don't really
use it that much and I found that for
myself too I've tried using the standing
desks but if I'm on my feet it's
actually kind of difficult for me to
concentrate I like to just sit down that
helps me get more into the zone so in my
personal opinion I think that standing
desks are overrated taking a look at my
chair just standard Costco imitation
Aeron chair pretty nice pretty sweet the
last interesting thing maybe to talk
about my headphones they're wireless
bluetooth
noise cancelling I find that the sound
quality is very good it's amazing
actually you can get one of these by
working at Google they don't really sell
this stuff so get a job there if you
want one of these headphones I also have
a pair of earbuds I use occasionally
maybe when I'm on the go or if I'm
taking a jug and lastly I just have
baskets of tools papers pens tape
scissors random stuff that I might need
throughout the day in the back I'm not
really sure how to organize this any
better if any of you guys have ideas let
me know like I got like extra credit
cards I got like multi tools funny
little toys tape souvenirs for the books
cash a box for a random receipts tissue
paper and just lots of random stuff in
the back here so that's my lab
up set up I like to keep things simple
if I can if I'm at work I'm going to
have a very similar setup to all this
and then I might actually have a second
computer like say a Mac Pro where I can
do additional work that deal for me
please share your desk setups in the
comments below I'm really looking
forward to seeing what you guys have set
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