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What desk setup would you bring to a desert island?
Or to your home during a pandemic lockdown.
Throughout life, you experience a lot of desks and a lot of desk setups. Real or virtual, at the office or at home, temporal or permanent — just a way to call it, nothing is permanent— a big one with a great office view or a small one in the dark corner of a store.
You may change jobs or be on a trip, taking work to vacations, having a new remote job, or living in lockdown in the middle of a pandemic. On any given day you have the task of thinking about what desk setup you would bring to a desert island. Or to your home in pandemic lockdown.
Throughout the time you are going to have a basic set of things and tools that come to mind when having to set a new desk.
Call me pessimistic. I prefer stoic or minimalist. But even the years I worked at a big company as an executive director and I had the privilege to have a big office with a great view, I kept things to a minimum. In quantity, type, and quality.
No, Marie Kondo didn’t exist in those years. But I have always preferred a simple life. I mean, life is complicated enough to add more complications.
Since then, I have worked in very different environments, under several budgets, and a variety of requirements…