Spoon, I am currently unemployed and I love to eat so I carry a spoon wherever I go just in case I might eat something.
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The spoon is without doubt the most exquisite nutrient delivery system.
Thats reasonable.
My penis.
Godeeem
My table saw. It's the cheapest one I could buy new, but damn if I don't use it for every single project I do. Just got much nicer combo blade for it, so now it cuts buttery smooth.
My brian.
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)
Communication skills (aka bullshittery) I'm a finish carpenter and project manager so its my job to figure out what my boss thinks the client wants, what the client actually wants, what the fuck the architect is talking about, whatever the interior designer thinks they do, and translate it into usable language to get my carpenters to build it and make everyone think it was their idea that was the best.
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
I'm a machinist, so I use a huge variety of tools (setting fixturing, looking at prints and diagrams, fine measurements and gauges, CAD and CAM software, manual machine tools, etc.) The most important? Eye protection. I have excellent vision and would never jeopordize it to whatever extent possible and reasonable. I use safety glasses so often now for scenarios even outside of work, I forget to take them off when eating until halfway through a meal. Maybe I should be worried about the broccoli, though. You can never be too careful.
Stopper PPE is a fantastic answer.
Org mode!!!
I don't say this lightly, I think I would be dead if it wasn't for Org mode in emacs given how hostile most of the tools and systems in society are to my brain.
It seems like every other organizational/pkm tool is built by people with extremely high executive function, is extremely opinionated in a way that is impossibly unlikely to dovetail with my particular brain and how it specifically needs help and is made with ZERO thought to how cruel it is to design a wholistic organizational and thinking tool and sell it to people who are struggling in precarious positions via a business that will eventually enshittify or abruptly go out of business and leave those people stranded a million miles from shore with a notes/thinking system that is hopelessly locked into an abandoned system.
I use Org mode for work, I use it for life, it is essentially as necessary as a pen and paper for me to actually get shit done.
I do sys admin/engineering work in a Windows environment. PowerShell is what got me this job, and together with my programming experience allows me to keep up with my seniors who have been in their positions for a decade or more.
It also helps us all make a good team. They have the knowledge and experience advantage (though I'm catching up), I have the skills to figure out how to implement/automate the plans in a way that doesn't involve days of mind numbing manual actions.
PowerShell is absolutely required to admin Windows. You don't have to be expert level, but you should be able to eventually get a script out that does the job.
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
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.
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.
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A scratch owl. At the leather shop I used that bastard for everything.
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
Precision vernier caliper
Machinist?
Is "mechatronic" a job description in English? I'm not sure what the accurate translation would be otherwise but it's a mix of metalworking, electrical engineering and programming. We mostly repair industrial electric motors and big ass generators used in hydroelectric power plants.
Caffeine.
Excel.
Its like magic from the math gods.
Terminal on Linux for work. Bash is such a fun thing :)
OpenProject. Great tool for project management and usual organizational operations. Also, it's European, libre and have interface (partly) in Esperanto.
I'd say my brain or my computer, but in reality it's my motivation to focus for a hot minute. So many distractions!
I would have to say EES (Engineering Equation Solver), as I’m a thermal engineer. Or potentially MATLAB with the CoolProp installed. They are quite brilliant tools, not to mention fun to work with!
First my glasses, next my smartphone and third I believe my desktop PC, wo all these three I will be homeless.
At work? Laptop and VSC/browser
Outside work, probably hex key set, I have it with me all times when cycling
My computer, my hand, and my ability to discern and call out bullshit.
Battery powered 3/8 drive impact
I probably use my driver and table saw most, but my cordless multitool is climbing up there.
Impact driver
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