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What’s on your desk, Sam Byford? - The Verge

What’s on your desk, Sam Byford? - The Verge

What’s on your desk, Sam Byford? - The Verge
Oct 21, 2020 2 mins, 16 secs

Two desks: one for work, one for gaming.

While many of us moved to home offices when companies sought to avoid COVID-19 infection, for some people, working at home is the norm.

One of those people is Sam Byford, Asia editor for The Verge, who works out of a home office in Tokyo, Japan.

We talked to Sam to find out how he has equipped his own home office and to see whether it matters these days if your remote desk is five miles away or about 6,700 miles away from your organization’s main office.

I handle much of our Asia-specific coverage, of course, but I’m also an editor who happens to be in Asia, which is helpful from a time zone perspective.

Was that an existing setup, or did you put it together once you knew you’d be working at home.

I’ve been working from home for as long as I’ve been with The Verge, but this is still quite a new setup.

It looks like one is for gaming and the other for working.

But I found it impossible to keep things organized, and I never really felt like I was off work.

With this room, I decided to abandon the idea of coherent, tasteful interior design and went for an unassuming wooden desk for my Mac with an ostentatious gaming setup on the left?

The gaming desk came from a seller called PandaTech, and it has RGB lighting, a cup holder, cable management, a USB hub, a controller rack, a headphone hanger, and a fitted mouse mat?

I’m tall, and it’s hard to find chairs that don’t encourage me to slouch.

I basically never use it as a laptop unless I’m going to trade shows, which for obvious reasons I haven’t done at all this year since CES, so I like this Brydge vertical dock that turns it into a skinny desktop computer and saves a ton of space.

I go through quite a lot of mechanical keyboards, but right now, I’m using a Keychron K2, which is working out great.

My gaming PC lives under the other desk, and it’s a custom build from 2016.

There is a dedicated button on my gaming desk to cycle through the colored lighting.

The Switch just lives there on its charging dock, and those little handheld consoles are Game Gear Micros that I was in the process of reviewing.

I should maybe get it framed or something, but honestly, I kind of like just having sports posters on my wall.

Radiohead was one of my favorite bands as a kid, so it’s a neat thing to have that reminds me of home.

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