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Very nicely made but may give the impression that you need a specific setup/computer to be sucessfull / get things done (forget it, I won't say what it is!).

So, for me, the only insighful interviews are the ones w/ "strange" or "forever unsatisfied" people.

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I've been following The Setup for years (it's a dream of mine to eventually be interviewd) and I—if I correctly understand what your getting at—respectfully disagree. Daniel is really good about featuring a wide range of people from a number of disciplines on a bunch of different platforms.

But careful readers will notice a trend. There are a number of accomplished artists/developers/makers that are really happy with their current setup as their "dream setup." In addition, many of them are using 3-4 year old hardware (controlling for time).

The moral is that we can all probably accomplish our dreams (cliché) with the hardware we've got—and that's my biggest takeaway from The Setup.

Some I like:

http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/ http://mike.fogus.usesthis.com/ http://phil.hagelberg.usesthis.com/

I'm always open to suggestions, if you have 'em!

It's not your fault, its just that people w/ Macs care more about their setups than everyone else, so they appear more.

(But I've gone back to your site dozens of times to check on people I admire.. say jrockway or rich hickey etc. So thanks a lot for building it)

Glad you enjoyed it!

s/jrockway/technomancy

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