Top row, left to right:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM1 + 20mm f/1.7: For my purposes, the best small compact DSLR that takes micro four third lenses. I love this little thing and it fits in my jacket pocket so I take it everywhere.
Calendar: My pocket calendar for boring work meetings and personal stuff.
Punkt MP01: The dumbphone in this dumbphone EDC. In my country 2G networks still work, but the inevitable is coming in a few years. I love the aesthetics of this phone; it is like something from East Germany. All the positive effects of using a dumbphone are true, at least for me. I’ve been using this little thing for a few months now as my main phone.
A notepad: A little notepad. I like the detective notepad style of this one.
Bottom row from left to right
Boox Nova Air: An e-ink tablet. This has been one of the best electronic purchases for me and I read it almost every day. The convenience of getting books on it and the e-ink screen has increased the amount of books I read. I am now going through Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books (which are like Jack Reacher but fantasy).
Sony Walkman NW-A45: My mp3 player. It has an SD card slot, so all our music lives in this device. It sounds great and the battery lasts forever, even in this old thing. The main drawback is that it sucks as a podcast device – you can move podcast files to it from computer, but it doesn’t remember where you left off listening to a podcast. So you either have to listen to the whole episode or try to remember where you left off. If you’re looking for an mp3 player, get the new NW-A306.
Apple Earpods: I have tried a lot of wired and wireless headphones, but I always come back to these. They’re lightweight and sound great.
3DS: A Pikachu 3DS. This is the console I’ve played the most. It is a great device and it has been jailbroken so it has all the games.
Not shown in the image:
- Bangle.js smart watch: An open source smart watch that doesn’t track you, but has all the features you need.
- A wallet
- keys
etc.
My quest was to find a way to go through life trying to stay as private as possible. I have a smartphone but it has the Lineage OS in it and it lives on my desk as a 2FA device these days. The added plus has been all the positives of living the dumb phone life. Not having to look something up on the phone has reduced stress and made me more present. It hasn’t turned me into some kind of Superman – I can still procrastinate quite well without a smartphone.