Recently I started working as a freelancer and had to setup an home office.
My home office setup
In the picture you can see my 19″ Samsung SyncMaster B1930, a Toshiba Satellite L755 with 6Gb Ram and 360 Gb of disk space, my 500Gb Iomega external disk, a NGS wireless mouse and keyboard and my London User Research Center sketching notepad. And this covers for me as far as hardware goes.
Have you ever wondered why time seems to fly when you are at the office? It’s interesting to see how a business owner understands the main distractions during an office day. Blame the M&M’s.
Jason Fried is one of the founders of 37 Signals, the makers of Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire and Backpack and author of Rework.
In this video Jason Fried talks about how 37 signals started, and how it growth to their current business model, how 37 signals offices work. It’s interesting understanding how 37 signals works in a very silent way in order to prevent distractions and prioritize work.
Probably the best mentality in 37 signals is their “horizontal growth” philosophy where their workers grow themself doing what they are really good at instead of being promoted and taken away from what they are really good at.
I found a post called Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes that shared a simples webapp that allowed to heatmap a virtual keyboard highlighting the most used keys.
I was tempted to find out which are the keys I used the mo.st when developing my Conserveira de Lisboa project, and here’s the result:
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