We are all generally familiar with the concept of a “Tech Stack” but what about your own Personal Stack? For me a personal stack is an understanding of the tooling and frameworks you use personally to get through life in private and professional circumstances.

Here is a short look over my stack, which tools do I used and for what purpose.

Where possible I use automation to make tedious tasks as light as possible. This is either for tedious house / garden work, reminders to do certain chores and for making life easier.

I keep the places in which I store information as minimal as possible, I focus on three types of documentation tooling:

Below are the tools I am using:

Being able to manage your day-to-day is a key skillset which helps you achieve anything you put your mind to. Here are the tools that keep me in check and enable me to amplify myself across many different mediums, topics and stay on top of core responsibilities.

Communication & Collaboration tooling can become bloated and there are so many different tools for different purposes. For example Instant Messaging with WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Signal, Facebook Messenger and soo much more, it’s easy to fall into a trap of all of these different tools. I try to stay focused and use just one tool. These tools enable me to collaborate and support others on many different levels.

These are my main sources of consumption and resources. You can find more details on what exactly I am consuming on a regular basis in my monthly recap on: The Monthly Filter | Joseph Hill | Substack

These are the various channels and mediums where I am public facing and they all serve different needs and requirements.