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what is up guys
karma medic here and welcome back to
another dose if you're new to the
channel hi my name is nasser and i'm now
a final year medical student studying at
king's college london and in today's
video i want to talk to you all about my
desk setup it's where i spend the vast
majority of my time especially in recent
months and years i'm going to break up
this video into four parts i'm going to
talk about the core
elements of the desk setup i'm going to
talk about what's actually sitting on
the desk what's underneath the desk and
then everything around it as well
so the first thing we need to talk about
is this absolutely huge
massive standing desk it's by a company
called fully and it is the biggest one
that i could find it is 180 by 80
centimeters
the absolute best thing about this desk
is that it is a standing desk which
means i can set it to preset levels this
one is just high enough to fit my desk
chair underneath it to make a bit more
space in my room
and then this one over here is what i
use when i'm standing and studying or
working at my desk so the ability to
raise and lower my desk
this quickly and this easily is
absolutely incredible if you've been
following my channel for a while you
know the previous desk that i had could
also raise and lower but it was done via
a manual crankshaft
here on the right hand side since i've
switched to this automatic one i raise
and lower my desk multiple times a day
which is absolutely incredible for
helping with my posture and with my
lower back pain
seeing as i spend so much time sitting
and working at this desk
all right sit back down and continue on
with the video
all right so the main computer that i
use on my desk is this m1 mac mini over
here but before that for the last three
years it has been the 13-inch baseline
touch bar macbook pro this thing has
been sitting closed
in clamshell mode connected to a monitor
for about three years
just editing 4k footage and exporting
huge huge video files with the fans
blasting i've pretty much fried this
laptop and the battery life has become
abysmal which is part of the reason why
i upgraded to the m1 mac mini at my desk
and then the monitor sitting in front of
me sort of the main piece of this desk
is a 34 inch lg monitor that i have on
this
very lovely articulating stand which
pretty much lets me do anything that i
want with the monitor it's
pretty ridiculous if you ask me that
monitor arm is also from fully and if
you're looking for a monitor arm i mean
i
couldn't more highly recommend this one
i think it's absolutely incredible
and it has some really neat cable
management hiding spots at the back
which i'll show you guys later but
basically this
huge screen real estate is irreplaceable
i can have so many things on the screen
at the same time it makes editing an
absolute breeze because i can see the
entire timeline sort of spread out
across this long monitor it's very sharp
honestly i love the colors i love the
image quality it's absolutely fantastic
now let's move on to talk about what's
actually sitting on the desk if you
haven't already noticed i've got
pretty much every piece of space taken
up by something
if you go around my desk so starting off
on the very left hand side of my desk
i have this rode video podcasting arm
with the rode mic
pro attached to it on the end and this
red xlr cable which i think looks pretty
cool so this is the microphone that i
use for doing all of my podcasts if
you're not already following my podcast
channel the karma cast and listening to
my podcast please feel free to do so
links in the description down below this
microphone i mean is absolutely
incredible it makes me sound
very very nice even though i don't have
that great of a voice for podcasting and
i think the actual beauty is in this arm
this thing just
moves to wherever you need it to be and
then stays there it's a little bit on
the pricey side but i would highly
recommend it and then sitting next to
the podcasting arm i have something
pretty strange that i would imagine most
of you have not seen before they're
basically
single machined pieces of brass or
copper or aluminum or steel and what you
do with these is that you take them and
you spin them
on a piece of glass basically i just
find them so lovely to hold in the hand
so relaxing to play with and when you
spin them on this piece of glass they
spin for 10 to 15 minutes i've actually
got an affiliate link for their products
i'll leave that down in the description
down below feel free to browse the
website and pick one up if you'd like i
think they're really cool all right next
to that i've got a pair of audio
technica
headphones which is one i use to listen
into and monitor
my podcasts when i'm recording with the
rode podcasting arm over here
and i'm using this rode podcaster that's
down below me in front of me as well so
this is just a pair of headphones that's
connected directly to my podcasting
system and helps me make sure that both
my audio and my guest's audio and the
music that i'm playing and everything
like that
is at the right level for the recording
i've got it sitting on this beautiful
walnut stand that's made by a company
called
grovemade i've actually got quite a few
of their products sitting on this desk
i'll get into those in a bit
this here is a white lamp that i got
from ikea ages ages ages ago i think it
was one of the first purchases that i
made when i moved to the uk over four
years ago now i personally think it
looks really nice i can articulate
and move it to pretty much any aspect of
the desk that i want and i've also got a
philips hue bulb inside so i can change
the colors and the lighting when i'm
filming a video in the dark i'll put an
example of that right over here
next to that i've got these kanto u4
speakers
these guys are huge and really pack a
mean punch they've been sitting in my
amazon
like wish list or whatever it is for
like the last year or so and then i
finally bit the bullet a couple of
months ago and pick them up i absolutely
love the sound that comes out of them
a jacuzzi a theater to watch my movies
they don't have as much bass as i would
like
but the subwoofer that comes along with
them is incredibly expensive and i
haven't been
able to buy the bullet and pick that up
just yet next to that i've got this
camera that you're looking at me through
right now
mounted on two separate camera arms and
then two
ball joint heads to get up to the
position that it is in
at the moment now this is probably what
i would consider to be the messiest part
of my desk but
it's incredibly important for me to have
this camera mounted there sitting
ready to go whenever i need it so that
my video making process can be as
effortless and easy as possible
if the camera is already sitting there
and literally all i have to do is turn
it on hit record and start filming one
of these videos then it makes me
infinitely more likely to film these
videos
and so generally in life i try to reduce
friction in every single place that i
possibly can
the reason all these things are around
me within arm's reach like this pen that
could be sitting
in my drawer but it's instead sitting on
my desk so that as soon as i need to do
something i want to have it immediately
available to me so i can actually do
that thing and not procrastinate it at
all so underneath the camera i've got a
series of cables to charge pretty much
any device that i could possibly need to
charge
i usually use it for things like my
power bank and then any old electronic
devices that use a mini usb cable and
sometimes i charge my iphone there if i
need a quick charge and i'm really low
on battery sitting in front of me
underneath the monitor is the rode
caster pro
by rode this thing is an absolute beast
it is basically an
all-in-one control system for everything
that i need to do with my podcast it
allows me to plug in four microphones at
once a bluetooth connection
a connection to my computer a connection
to my phone and i've already preloaded a
whole bunch of sound effects in there
that i can just tap on and immediately
include into the recording of my podcast
as i'm recording it which is incredibly
useful for me because that means in post
i have as little editing to do as
possible because i've already done all
the mixing mastering and editing within
this one device sitting in front of me
directly underneath the monitor i've got
this native union
wireless charging pad that can charge
three of my devices at the same time so
currently what it houses is my work
phone
my air pods and then also my apple watch
the reason that i love this wireless
charging pad so much is that it helps
eliminate the clutter of wires on my
desk i've gone to extreme lengths to try
and hide pretty much
all the wires that are on my desk and
we'll get into cable management a little
bit later but having this wireless
charging pad means i now need three less
cables at least for charging these
devices and since i'm one of those
people who as soon as they stop using a
device immediately throws it on the
charger i'm never out of battery on
anything here
everything is always being plugged in
always being charged ready to go as soon
as i need it so
this is the metric time clock that you
guys have not stopped asking me
questions about
in fact you guys asked so many questions
that i made an entire tick tock video
about it i'll leave that link somewhere
in the description down below or here on
screen
so basically you can have it tell you
pretty much anything i currently have it
cycling through the time
the weather how many youtuber
subscribers i have how many twitter
followers i have the price of bitcoin i
can also use it to control the philips
hue lights that are all over my room
straight from this little alarm clock
here i also have a tracker to tell me
how many coveted vaccine doses have been
distributed around the world in the
states in the uk and in canada then it
also actually serves as a radio i've
also got it customized to show the
little orange dog walking on the side
which i think is pretty cool
yeah it basically looks very cool it
gives you some pretty useful information
but it's incredibly overpriced for what
it is to the right of that we've got the
m1 mac mini and all the stickers that
you see on it i actually put on during
an instagram live so make sure you guys
follow me on instagram if you don't
already now the major problem with the
mac mini is that it has very few inputs
and output ports and if you look at the
back you can see that it's already
completely full
and so what i've had to do is purchase
this external anchor
input output device thing that i connect
to the mac mini and that's sitting over
here
just out of frames you can kind of see
it behind the speaker but also kind of
not see it and i like it that way so
that you know it's there but you don't
see all the clutter that comes behind it
which i'll show you in a second so
basically this thing is
absolutely amazing it has all the input
output ports i could ever need it's got
two sd card slots on the front an
auxiliary port
two usbc ports a usb 3 port and then on
the back
three more usb ports two more usb c
ports an
hdmi port and an ethernet port i mean it
basically fulfills every need for ports
i will ever need on a computer at the
back the ports are pretty much
full and at the front every time i do
any kind of editing they get completely
filled up as well
usually when i'm editing i have one or
two hard drives connected to the front
as well as this special sd card reader
over here for the sd cards from the sony
a7 s3
and so i usually have a bunch of things
connected over here all connected to the
front port so i make
full use of this thing when it's got a
lot of things plugged into it it gets
pretty hot but honestly
i couldn't care less it's not like i'm
touching it it's just sitting there on
the side of my desk
but that's sort of the one downside i
would say about it and then this over
here
is the classic ikea plant as ali would
say that
all tech youtubers have sitting on their
desk the same one mkbhd has been using
for absolutely so long i feel like it's
a rite of passage for youtubers to have
one of these plants sitting on their
desk but what i've done is taken it out
of that super
ugly ikea plant pot that you have and
i've put it into this grove made
walnut looking thing which i think looks
infinitely better
and i love having it on my desk recently
as you guys can see
over there i've gotten into having a lot
of greenery in my room i've got green
behind me over there and i've actually
got some behind the camera as well
having greenery in my room has been
absolutely life-changing it's incredible
how much it steps up the aesthetic
vibe and experience that you have when
you step into a room so yeah a little
bit of greenery goes a very long way
next to that i have this pen holder also
made by grovemade it has this incredibly
heavy base so it just
sits down and holds the pen in place and
this pen here
this is the best pen i have ever used in
my life it's a little bit heavy duty so
it feels good in the hand
but more importantly this thing writes
so beautifully it's just so silky smooth
on a piece of paper and it
feels like this luxury item even though
it's just a simple pen so i absolutely
love writing with it and then finally
this is another walnut stand made by
grovemade i used to have these metal
ones
for my laptop before but i personally
don't think they look nearly as good as
this i think this is more fitting for
a you know elegant mature desk setup and
then lastly the things that are sitting
down right in front of me
i've got this desk mat which again i
think provides a little bit of
organization on my desk
it gives a really nice view to have the
black white black white when you look
around my desk i really really like it
and i think it adds a lot of just
elegance and sophistication to the desk
setup and then
probably my favorite purchase in recent
times is honestly this mechanical
keyboard i've wanted a mechanical
keyboard for a long time but i could
never find one that i felt was perfect
for what i wanted and then when i
saw this and i saw the custom keycaps i
was like all right this is the one i
need to get so this
is the and pro 2 wireless mechanical
keyboard
i personally think it feels and sounds
incredible to use let's do a little
typing test
so when i bought this keyboard it
actually encouraged me to learn how to
type with all 10 of my fingers prior to
that
embarrassingly enough i used to type
with these three fingers
i think i was pretty fast but obviously
nowhere near as fast as i am right now
actually typing with all 10. it's also
got led lighting on it i honestly don't
use it that much there's all kinds of
rgb things you can do colors flying
around the place
personally i prefer for the led lights
to be off because it saves battery that
way and also i just think it looks a
little bit neater and nicer on my desk
this over here
is the logitech mx master 3 mouse
now if you've been following the youtube
channel for a while you know that i have
been an advocate of the apple magic
trackpad for pretty much as long as i
can remember
i never ever used a mouse i use a
trackpad for pretty much everything all
my editing all my normal daily
interactions with a computer
and how wrong i was i can't believe i
was so stubborn
and i stuck with a trackpad for so long
the use of a mouse is incredibly
superior if you're like me and you were
just using a trackpad for some reason
because you were used to it from using
laptops back in the day please try out a
mouse it is incredibly better
it's incredibly more efficient to move
around the screen and a mouse like this
where you can customize all these
different buttons has made things like
using my notion
infinitely faster and also editing
shortcuts tips and tricks things like
that it's been really really helpful i
would highly recommend using a mouse and
all right i think that's pretty much
everything that's sitting on my desk i
guess the last thing is my personal
phone which is the iphone 12 pro max
i'm gonna make an entire video on that
so we won't talk about it here now let's
move on to talking about what is around
the desk
first and foremost and i think most
importantly we've got the karma medic
neon sign
up and above my desk i don't know why
just ever since i started the youtube
channel i dreamed of this day where i
would have a youtube sign like all the
other really cool youtubers that i
looked up to absolutely love when i said
it on and it is in the background of my
videos i think it gives it such a great
vibe and appearance i think it's really
cool holds a very very special place in
my heart and then next to that we've got
this
anatomy drawing that i made before i
started my youtube channel in my first
year of medical school when i was sort
of needing something some
form or some way to have a creative
outlet i think i spent about a week
of every single day working on this
drawing for like three to four hours
something stupid like that i think it
turned out very very well i'm very proud
of it because i do not think i'm a good
artist actually let me rephrase that i
am not good at drawing in any way shape
or form
i also drew the heart with like a bunch
of branches and trees growing out of
them and then of course
on the right the silver youtube plaque i
mean just
absolutely incredible i when i started
this youtube channel i never in a
million years thought i would reach 100
000 subscribers let alone the number
that we're out right now it's absolutely
crazy
and now i'm looking forward to hopefully
getting the one million subscriber
plaque in a couple of years time
whenever that eventually happens and i'm
gonna put it right above that one
over there on the wall as well on the
left hand side of my desk i've got this
plant over here
which i don't take great care of in fact
noir
is the plant keeper of the house she
comes in once a week and waters all my
plants because i will forget otherwise
so you guys can thank norfolk all the
greenery in my room and on the right
hand side of my desk we've got a classic
set of ikea alex drawers now the amazing
thing about these drawers is that they
have so much space i mean
each one of the drawers magically holds
an infinite amount of space that you
just would not expect the bad thing
about that is that they get really full
and really cluttered very very easily
if you guys have good recommendations
for sort of drawer organizers that you
can link me to
please do in the comments down below i
really really need some but yeah
basically everything to do with filming
to do with my cameras hard drives
equipment whatever
all goes into this drawer as well as
miscellaneous items things from medical
school etc
it's absolutely packed to the brim super
super messy and i need to get that
sorted on top of the drawer i have this
thing which
i think is called like a catch-all or
something like that it's basically just
somewhere where you put
all your stuff when you walk in through
the house so usually i would put my keys
here
my wallet i used to put coins in here
back when we were a cash
society and now we're a cashless society
but yeah i just keep a couple of things
there that i use
pretty often so my wallet and my running
uh earphones are there and then at the
very back on top of the alex drawers
i've got my ipad this thing i use still
pretty often i write on it quite a bit
when i'm taking notes when i'm trying to
memorize things for upcoming exams both
practical and written exams but i just
have nowhere to keep it on my desk i am
officially out of space and so that's
why it sits
on the alex drawers as a peripheral item
and then the last thing around my desk
is the philips hue
light bar that i have hidden behind the
ipad as i mentioned i've already got one
in this lamp over here and i've got a
light strip somewhere over there out of
frame that you can't really see
but when i film my videos at night time
and i have this sort of
rgb light theme in the background i
think that it provides a lot of
vibe and ambience to my desk and when
i'm recording my podcast i've got a
light strip back there behind the couch
that in addition to everything on my
desk as well
creates this really nice environment and
vibe for the podcast
so let's move on to talking about what's
underneath the desk if you guys have
been following this channel for any
period of time now you'll know that my
cable management on the previous desk
was just
abysmal it was an absolute mess and so i
promised myself that when i got this new
desk and i set all this up i was going
to have perfect cable management in my
humble opinion perfect cable management
i do have for the most part so
underneath the desk i've got these two
huge cable trays which i've shoved the
infinite amount of cables and power
bricks that
all of these electronics on the desk
actually need there's so many i can't
believe that i've actually found a place
to put them all and they sort of very
messily keep everything uniquely out of
place and
out of sight for the 99 of use cases
when me or anyone else is looking at
this desk
i've also got a lot of the big power
bricks just stuck to the bottom of the
desk using some very strong double-sided
velcro tape and then at the back of the
desk i have this long string of cables
again
beautifully hidden out of sight out of
the way
and i actually know where all the cables
are i can actually track them easily i
can move things around if i need to so
that's cable management i'm actually
really happy with how it's turned out
i'm very proud of myself
and i'm definitely going to keep this up
for desk setups moving forward on the
left and on the right i've got two
cheeky hooks which are really really
strong and so one of them carries my bag
from medical school
every day when i come home i just hook
my bag onto there and it stays and i can
grab anything that i want from it very
easily within reach down over here and
then my headphones are sitting on a
piece of metal from the rode podcast
microphone arm and those are again very
easily within reach i can just lean down
like this
and grab them when i need them turn them
on put them on and
just get back to work and then yeah i've
just got a small rubbish bin to throw
away anything that i need underneath my
desk but importantly next to it is this
sort of
electricity cable box it's a very simple
plain plastic box where you can shove in
a bunch of electric cables wires power
bricks whatever and it helps sort of
organize all of that neatly in one place
since the vast majority of my cables are
tied to my desk or hidden beneath or
behind it i don't really have that many
things in there but
it still helps hide all of the cables
and things that i just need to have
sitting down on the floor
all right and i think that is it this
has been an incredibly
longer video than i had imagined that it
would be i'm honestly just
so happy with this desk i don't think
there's anything else that i want to add
onto it to make it any better all right
so that's it that's everything that i
wanted to talk about for my desk setup i
really hope you enjoyed this video i
know it's been quite a long one so
please do leave a like on it and also
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from me in the future
and yeah that's it i'll catch you guys
in the next one peace
that was a lot and because i know i'm
gonna get a ton of questions about this
yes i like putting stickers on my
electronic devices
and i get all of these from a website
called redbubble.com