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What's in my Bag - Junior Doctor Everyday Carry

2018-12-03 · Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard) · Ali · recording, 5:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

Junior doctor Ali tours his Thule Vea 25-litre backpack: for work he carries his 2018 iPad Pro, gym kit, stethoscope and AirPods; for weekends away or editing he adds his MacBook Pro, Kindle, a backup hard drive, his Sony camera, Bose QC35 headphones and chargers.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — The Thule Vea 25L backpack, sent free for review

  • ★★ Ali loves his Thule Vea 25-litre backpack; Thule sent it free for review, he agreed to feature it only if he liked it, and Thule is not paying him. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — What he carries to work: iPad Pro, gym kit, stethoscope, AirPods

  • ★★ The most important thing Ali takes to work as a junior doctor is his 2018 iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil and the Smart Keyboard Folio. — 00:00:29 · iPad Pro, Apple Pencil
  • ★ Ali loves that the Thule Vea backpack has a bottom pocket where shoes are tucked away, with a flip pouch above for the rest of his gym kit. — 00:00:58
  • ★ Ali's gym kit has Nike shorts and Gymshark tops, which he likes these days because they squeeze around the biceps and make him look a bit hench. — 00:00:58 · Gymshark
  • ★★★ Ali always has his Apple AirPods with him at work and ranks them high on his list of tech he would recommend for everyone. — 00:01:30 · AirPods
  • ★★ Ali keeps what he carries to work minimal: mainly his iPad Pro, his stethoscope and his gym kit. — 00:01:30 · iPad Pro

00:01:47 — The weekend setup: MacBook Pro, Kindle, hub, hard drive, cameras, headphones, chargers

  • ★★ For weekends away or editing in a coffee shop, Ali's most important extra item is his 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro, the i9 version with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB drive. — 00:02:00 · MacBook
  • ★★ When he spends the night away Ali takes his Kindle, which he calls the best thing to do on trains when he is not editing, or just before bed. — 00:02:00 · Kindle
  • ★★ For editing away from home Ali carries a Satechi USB hub for his MacBook Pro and a 4 TB Western Digital hard drive with backups of all his footage. — 00:02:29 · MacBook
  • ★★★ Ali usually travels with his Sony A6500 and calls the Sony A6000, his first camera, probably the single most valuable purchase of his life. (hedged) — 00:02:29 · Sony A6000
  • ★★ For trains and planes Ali carries his Bose QC35 noise-cancelling headphones, whose noise cancelling he calls literally magical and which are super comfortable to wear for long periods. — 00:03:04
  • ★ Ali's USB-C MacBook Pro charger now also charges his iPad; he also carries an Anker four-port charger and an Anker power bank. — 00:03:33 · MacBook, iPad Pro

00:04:02 — The packed bag, its colour and sign-off

  • ★★ Ali likes the blue of his Thule Vea backpack, which goes with everything he wears: almost always a grey T-shirt and black jeans. — 00:04:32

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Mentioned

Central: Thule Vea

Also: Organizations: Anker · Gymshark · Nike · Satechi · Western Digital

Places: Cambridge

Products: AirPods · Apple Pencil · Apple Watch · Bose QuietComfort 35 · iPad Pro · Kindle · MacBook · Smart Keyboard Folio · Sony A6000 · Sony A6500

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