{"id":35720,"date":"2020-04-08T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=35720"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:09:04","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-dan-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-dan-shapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Dan Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dan Shapiro<\/strong>\u00a0is the founder of Glowforge, the company behind the\u00a0Glowforge 3D Laser Printer<\/a>. He\u2019s also the author of\u00a0Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook<\/a>\u00a0and the inventor of\u00a0Robot Turtles: The Game for Little Programmers<\/a>. He and his wife Leslie are sheltering in place, educating their fifth grade twins from the basement. He\u2019s just launched\u00a0shapiroschool.org<\/a>, which you might enjoy if you\u2019ve got basement kids of your own. You can also find him on instagram at\u00a0@danshapirosea<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0@danshapiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About the bag<\/strong>
\nWhen we were founding\u00a0Glowforge<\/a>, I bet my cofounder that I could print a custom satchel. He was skeptical. Together we mocked it out of sticky notes and Scotch tape. I included a magnetic clasp, custom pockets, a stitched in Bluetooth tracker, and a secret document pouch. It feels soft yet tough, it feels more my own than anything else I own, and it turned five years old a few months ago. Strangers still ask me where I bought it.<\/p>\n

No, you can\u2019t see what\u2019s in the secret pouch. Then it wouldn\u2019t be a secret.<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft Surface Pro<\/a><\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t remember which model, and I don\u2019t care. I finally decided that I was going to carry the lightest damn thing that would run Adobe Creative Cloud. I bought the v1, and when it broke four years later, I bought another one. It\u2019s great, it\u2019s fast, the keyboard is surprisingly unterrible, and it weighs less than the bag.<\/p>\n

Zebra mechanical pencil<\/a> ($6)<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s tiny. It\u2019s light. It works. I\u2019m pretty sure I found it by running down a Frauenfelder rabbit hole starting here<\/a>, and then looking for something lighter. Paper I\u2019ll grab fistfuls of and scribble on as needed, but a good pencil – you can\u2019t find that anywhere.<\/p>\n

A very cheap d20 from the bottom of a game store dice bin<\/strong>
\nThis poorly-printed chunk of plastic means a lot to me. First, because it represents something I\u2019m striving to do better: make room for voices in my industry that usually don\u2019t get heard. You can learn about why this means that in this blog post, \u201cFellow white dudes, let\u2019s roll a d20<\/a>\u201d. Second, because when I\u2019m trying to keep my mouth shut, I can fidget with it. And last but not least, because it means I\u2019m always ready for an emergency game of 5e D&D with my wife and 11 year old twins.<\/p>\n

Panasonic ErgoFit In-Ear Earbud Headphones<\/a> ($9)<\/strong>
\nI have been tempted by Airpods. So sleek! So white! Then I remember. I lose about five of these a year. Fortunately, that sets you back nine bucks each. They sound good and they double as earplugs when sleeping. The mic is surprisingly passable. Just don\u2019t make the mistake I did and buy the cool purple ones if you have kids in the house \u2014 they steal them immediately. Also, some of the colors don\u2019t have microphones. Be sure the picture shows the microphone before you buy. And don\u2019t forget a USB-C adapter for the headphone jack if your phone\u2019s manufacturer hates you and all that is good in the world.<\/p>\n

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One last note: I\u2019m not using my bag these days. Instead, I\u2019m working from home to keep everyone safe. I hope you are too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in my bag? issue #44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35727,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions\/35727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}