1 New Thing I added to My Desk to Start Remembering the Future

I’ve spent a long time perfectly curating the tools on my desk.

Ultra-wide monitor.

Keychron Q2 mechanical keyboard with cherry browns.

Steelseries rival 700 mouse.

Benq light bar.

Lumina web cam.

Google home hub.

Stream deck XL.

Yeti blue mic.

36 inch ultra-wide mouse pad.

And a single button to switch it all between my mac and custom built PC.

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It’s a lot. But it’s also 90% of what I stare at in my office.

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The rest are relics.

A Shinola runwell desk clock my wife gave me on my 30th birthday.

A print made by Jimmy Diresta on a vintage printing press at Maker Faire Louisville last year.

A print proof of the Saltwater Woody RTD packaging I designed.

A signed concert poster from Nathanial Rateliff and Gregory Alan Isakov.

The music stand from my great-grandmother’s piano.

The nameplate from my grandfather’s office door when he finally started his own company in his 60s, and the beat-up trumpet he used to play in the coal room of the Phi Psi house at Purdue.

A custom 3D printed minifig of my D&D character, given to me as his best man.

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These are relics of where I’ve been. Or where those who came before me have been.

I think this is common practice. To collect memories in our workspaces of everything we have achieved so we can look around and be proud of where we’ve come from.

Today I added one that doesn’t fit in because it doesn’t exist in the past but in the future.

I haven’t announced it much yet, but I am making a career shift, and this February, I will become a professional EOS implementer.

As a reminder not of where I’ve been but where I’m going, I’ve stuck the Traction Library books in center stage.

Soon they will be tools.

Someday they will be relics.

But today, they are a reminder of a future I am excited for.

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