The Cool Tools site does a regular series in which people describe what they carry around and what they carry it around in. I thought I might do my own entry in the series, even though I don’t have affiliate links. 

First comes my Tom Bihn Synapse 19 backpack, which I find to be brilliantly designed — with the right number of pockets in all the right places — extremely comfortable to wear, and sufficiently rugged that I will probably have it for the rest of my life. (I’ve had it for seven or eight years and it still looks basically new.) The chief things you’ll find inside it are … 

• My 12” MacBook, in Tom Bihn’s bespoke sleeve
• Apple AirPods Pro 
• Pentel Energel pens 
• Palomino Blackwing pencils + sharpener 
• Leuchtturm A5 Hardcover notebook 
• Kindle Voyage
• Whatever books I happen to be teaching at the moment 
• Ibuprofen and hand sanitizer 

Other things come and go but those are the permanent essentials. I’m not adding links (except to the Tom Bihn site) because the most obvious place to link to is Amazon and I don’t really want to promote Amazon. Just search for items you’re interested in!