Silicon Sanctuary

Two square meters of desk. Everything else is noise.

The setup is pared down to what I actually touch:

• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 (i7-1365U, 32GB) on a vertical stand - lid closed, driving the display. No laptop footprint on the desk.

• Dell U2723QE - 27" 4K, USB-C upstream. One cable for display, power, and hub. Clean.

• HHKB Professional Hybrid Type-S - the only keyboard I've used for 7 years that I don't think about. White blank keycaps. No legends, no backlight, no distraction.

• Logitech MX Master 3S - gray. Horizontal scroll wheel for code review. That's its whole job.

• Generic monitor arm - gas spring. Frees up exactly 12cm of desk depth. Worth it.

• A single coaster, ceramic, black. For the single cup of black coffee that sits there from 7am to 10am, untouched for the last hour.

No RGB. No figurines. No second monitor. No standing desk. No cable management because there are no visible cables (the monitor arm routes the USB-C cable down the back of the desk leg).

The philosophy: every physical object on the desk is a tax on attention. The fewer objects, the lower the tax. This desk has a 2-object overhead: the keyboard and the mouse. The monitor and the coaster are static - they don't demand interaction.

The real setup is invisible: the fiber termination in the utility closet, the UPS in the corner, the generator relay in the storage room, the failover scripts that run at 3am. You don't see infrastructure. You just never notice it's there.