Jack Raines

Writer of a finance blog called Young Money and an MBA candidate at Columbia Business School

Issue #252 February 8, 2023

Gear

4 items

Miscellaneous Macbook Pro

Miscellaneous Xebec (the dual monitor attached) Buy

Miscellaneous Bluetooth mouse

Miscellaneous Journal (not really part of the workspace, but always in my bag)

The census

Jack’s MacBook Pro is on 64% of the desks we’ve published.

Ranked across all 516 setups that list their gear.

MacBook Pro 64%

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Interview

4 questions

› What is your favorite item in your workspace?

My Xebec. It's portable and triples my screen size.

› How do you spark creativity?

I've never sparked creativity, it sparks me. Creativity usually hits when I'm in the gym, or on the subway, or at a dive bar at 1 AM. When it does hit, I text myself a few blurbs to review later when I'm by my computer.

› How do you manage work-life balance?

The best way to manage work-life balance is work on stuff that you don't feel the need to balance.

› What does your typical writing process look like?

I sit down, write for 15 minutes, hop on Twitter to look for a tweet that I want to reference, procrastinate on Twitter for 20 minutes, throw my phone on my bed, close Twitter, grind on the newsletter some more.