Desk Ergonomics, Non-Fiction Podcast Recommendations and Obsidian Deep-dive

Tris despairs at Robin’s desk setup, Robin recommends tech/lefty podcasts, and Tris explains how he’s augmenting his Obsidian use with the open-source ecosystem. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 Intros, summer over01:14 Robin’s home working environment31:53 Robin’s leftist podcast recs52:25 Tris’s non-fiction podcast recs54:47 Demo to Robin how Tris makes his videos 🔗 LINKS ROBIN’S SHAMEFUL DINING TABLE SETUP: Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External Scott Hanselman’s “Brain, Back, Buns, and Bites” articlePresenterm Robin’s podcast list The InterceptDrop Site NewsMacro DoseDeconstructedPolitics Theory OtherFactually with Adam ConoverOn the MediaTech Policy PressTech DirtEach Week Work Repeat Tris’s podcast list Self-Directed ResearchWB-40Cortex 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript Intros, summer over Tris: Right. There we go. September, I can’t believe it. Where’s the summer gone or where’s the summer going? Robin: mean, it’s crazy to be, for me, obviously it, it’s, it means kids starting school. Tris: Of course. Right. That’s exciting. Robin: the school holiday, summer, even if people don’t have kids, I feel like everything is oriented around school holiday, you know, in terms of what events are happening and all that Organising life around academic year Tris: Right, exactly. Yes. my heroes seem to be great organizes this year around the academic year, and I think that like ending with the summer is quite a nice, like, reset quite a nice big block of time. Although you could argue that winter also works quite well, but we we’re no longer in the Roman Empire where everything stops for four months for an enormous single month cold winter. Robin: Yeah. Tris: so school holidays, my upcoming video, the video is called Obsidian for Students. I’ve timed it for back to school. Robin: Oh, wow. professional. Mental health day Tris: I mean, I’m trying, everyone says you’ve gotta like, get in all this and every single year I miss Mental Health Day. even though all of my podcasts and half of my videos are about mental health. Um, right. Robin: some strong Tris: Uh, Robin: don’t you, for the lead up to that. Robin’s home working environment Tris: yes, exactly. So we were gonna talk about some other stuff, but I have sneaked in an extra extra topic because you mentioned just now that you were interested in setting up a new workspace in your new house. Robin: Yes, Tris: opinions. Tell me. Robin: Yeah. So I, sent you the photo of what my setup right now looks like, which is just that I moved into this house, Tris: Oh. Robin: was full of. Furniture because it’s, um, you know, furnished place. It used to be an Airbnb, so it was like really kitted out and I’ve already shipped out a couple of beds into a storage place. and I just haven’t gone around to like, getting rid of this table because if I get rid of this table right now, I have nothing else to work on. But ul ultimately I think I want this room to be to be like a massive play place for the kids when I’m not working. So I kind of want a desk that is a work desk. Like I think I’ve given up on the idea of having an actual dining table in this room, which is what this table Tris: Yeah. Gotcha. Robin: so I want a desk that is a work desk that I can kind of put away behind the, the door or something quite easily, um, if I need to. but otherwise, when it comes out, it’s like a proper workstation and I’ve got a proper chair a little bit of an A DHD thing. It’s Tris: Mm-hmm. Robin: of the life I had I got very used to just working ad hoc wherever, so I never Tris: Oh, Robin: a place to work, and now I’m Tris: right. That’s where everyone starts. Robin: improve that. So I, I have very little experience in this and I wanna do it. Tris: I must tell the listener. What I am seeing here, because this photo is, it looks like a nightmare. this is a, a dining table with like a flat top, that a weird crisscrossed are very arty, legs holding it up. that is not the worst part, the worst part of the dining chairs that are around it, they look very soft and comfortable. But these are hurting my back even to look at, these are making me very sad. I do appreciate the, the microphone boom arm that, that I bullied Robin into getting. So that’s why that’s working very nicely. Robin: we can put the Tris: Do IS Yeah. Yeah. As long as you’re happy with it. but yeah, we can put it in the show notes. That sounds good. am I seeing a Mac wireless keyboard in front of you there? Oh my God. We will return to that, Robin: I’m Tris: at least the laptop. Hmm. Robin: I love, like I know, I know. I think our taste in keyboards is, is very ...