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Whats on your desk?

What do you have on your desk that helps you work/think? For example, I have a Frankenstein plush that I used to help debug code (rubber duck debugging style).

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AndyGFX

Keyboard, mouse, notebook, phone, monitor, chocolate.

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Kristian R.

I have a bunch of personal items on my desk, two of them being notable: An old-fashioned sand-filled hourglass and a small glass/crystal ball. Both of these used to be team birthday gifts in our very early corporate days - the hourglass dating back to a time when we ran into serious performance issues more often than we wanted to (and our employees had to watch the "virtual sandglass" Windows NT cursor more often than they wanted), and the glass ball dating back to our days before establishing a working support / helpdesk workflow (when I often was confronted with extremely vague error messages and at some point used to respond that I can't provide any help before looking into my magic crystal ball to see what's wrong). Oh well. Those early days of work. ;)

Actually, the more recent artifacts on my desks are stones collected at the shores of the Baltic Sea which I tend to have in my hands then and now, there's something meditative about the sensation of their surface. ;)

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Periodismo Basura

Una pelota de beisbol y una libreta para hacer mis modelos UML.

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Andrew O'Rourke

I have a moderately-sized rubber band ball I have been slowly constructing over the course of my career. 😄

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Paula

I have this figure of Judy (Zootopia) as she really inspires me in my career (I'm studying computer engineering and I feel it's being so difficult to get through) and a lot of post-it, they are useful in every situation.

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Kim Arnett 

Other than the obvious - a box of kinetic sand, the company coffee mug full of chargers, Game Developer Barbie, a photo of my family, a pig face vase with a fake plant in it and some books.
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Matthew Bidewell

Kinetic Sand!? Damn I should have thought of that!

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Dave van Herten

Rubiks Cube.

I find it acts as a good brain reset if I feel stuck. Completing the cube is a minute and a half (sadly no speed cuber here, but probably a good thing in this context) where I have to focus on the cube and not my current coding problem.

I have had more than one AHA! moment when looking back at the code after doing the cube.

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Stephanie Handsteiner • Edited

Glad I'm not the only one, solving the Rubik's Cube instead of ranting when stuck.

And it really does help, I've had several “AHA!“ moments myself, when looking back at the screen after solving the cube.

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George Offley

Fidget cube, harmonica, headphones, speakers, cell, and programming book.

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Niko 👩🏾‍💻

I have a tiny 9 x 7 white board, Super Mario Bros pushpin fire flower statue, black cloud tape dispenser with rainbow tape, Gunner glasses, Audio-Technica ATH-M50x headphones, and a Bernstein notebook.

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Matthew Bidewell

White boards are a life saver!

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Will

A second desk on top of the original desk (my version of a discount standing desk).
Floppy disks (for retro flavor).

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Matthew Bidewell

Desk-ception?!

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Will