I don’t just mean a wrench, unless thats it for you. I mean any tool you regularly use for work that you consider your most important. If you’re a software person name whatever digital tool you guys use. Whatever the career everyone uses tools I dont care if they are digital, verbal, physical or psychological. For me its honestly probably a flashlight, before I use any tools I’m always investigating with my flashlight or using a laser to trace lines.
My brian.
My brian.
Any specific Brian or just the one closest to you?
I AM BRIAN!
THE BRIAN
NAMED ITSELF
THE BRIAN
(and he would have gotten away with it, too,
if it hadn’t it been for you meddling kids)
My glasses, for sure. Next would be my bike, as I use it to get around everywhere. Third most important is probably my keyboard at work, or a pencil.
God damn I didn’t even consider glasses
Give me ssh, vi, bash and Linux kernel and I can get work done.
Caffeine.
I feel naked without my Leatherman multi tool.
Terminal on Linux for work. Bash is such a fun thing :)
A spudger, aka nylon probe tool aka “black stick”. I have them in drawers and toolboxes all over the place. Useful for working tiny plugs out of electronics and pressing, poking and scraping at things.
IntelliJ IDEA
It’s an IDE, a highly featureful code editor.
A lot of programmers like to use more basic text editors and pile on plugins. I feel bad for them when they share some new plugin they’re excited about and it’s a feature that’s been in IntelliJ forever and they had to put extra work in to get it. And so many other users of that editor don’t even know what’s possible.
My brain :p
The browser. A surprising amount of my billable hours is googling the manual of some obscure thing someone else sold our customer and they want to feed the signal to our system and then reading aloud how they connect the thing.
My drawing assets. Drawing diagrams to explain things makes my life so much easier
Do you draw digitally or pen and paper? If the latter, do you have specific utensils you like?
I do both but perfer digital because i hate the marks of shame
My most used tool is a cordless impact driver. With the right bits it is so useful. Cuts many repair times down to a percentage of their non impact driver repair time. I have bits for any screws and also bits to adapt sockets.
The one I picked up is less than $50 at Walmart with the bits. Super useful tool to have around. I throw it in my backseat and it’s always there when I need it.
Regularly use for work? Scalpel blades. My job would be essentially impossible without them.
What do you do?
I get every organ or piece of tissue that is removed from you during surgery. I cut up the tissue so it can be made into slides for the pathologist (a type of physician) to render a diagnosis.
How finely do you cut your steak at a restaurant? I’m imagining you cutting very fine slices and savoring them one by one.
Lol!! Believe it or not, I hate cutting my food!
Because…
- I’m lazy
- When you’re used to using ultra sharp knives, things like steak knives feel so incredibly dull that it’s infuriating/“difficult”. At work, I go through scalpel blades like candy. A sharp blade is always key for my work!
Math. It is the language of nature, music, science, and technology. Math is power.
Math allows me to create and use my own tools and media, besides those that someone has already dreamed up.
Hell yeah
My computer, my hand, and my ability to discern and call out bullshit.
