Name: Niccolò “nothatminimal”

Location: Italy

Occupation: Senior Project Manager

Room size: 5 m² (54 ft²)

Cost of setup: ~$8K, if not more (considering all the gadgets, consoles, etc.)

Social media: Instagram

Hello! Tell us a bit about yourself

Hi! I’m Niccolò, a 36-year-old Italian with a vast passion for tech and games.

I’ve been working in gaming for the past 18 years.

I’ve covered multiple roles in marketing games and tech products, but the main ones have been in product or project management (depending on the company).

I mainly focused on working with companies outside of Italy, and I have a fair amount of experience with both startup environments as well as big corporations.

A portrait of Niccolò “nothatminimal”, a digital creator and senior project manager, in his home office

I always had a passion for content creation. Ten years ago, I created educational content about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (one of my favourite games of all time).

I used to have quite a hefty following on YouTube and Twitch (justin.tv at the time), but I eventually left that world to focus more on the “behind the scenes” and the sausage-making of the gaming world (not the best choice, I know, eheheh).

A modern gaming and work setup featuring an LG 27UN880P monitor, NuPhy Halo keyboard, Logitech G Superlight Pro mouse on a Harber London wool-like desk mat, MacBook Pro M1 Pro 2022, and Radeon 7900XTX external GPU, all arranged on an IKEA KARLBY tabletop with Flexispot legs

At the end of 2022, I decided to create a new persona, “nothatminimal”, to showcase my passion for tech and share suggestions for whoever is working from home and wants to become a minimalist in the tech space.

I started with Instagram while also expanding to YouTube.

Take us through your setup

Item Model
Monitor LG 27UN880P, LG 27GL83A
Monitor mount Standard from LG
Monitor light bar Removed but it was a BenQ
Laptop MacBook Pro M1 Pro 2022
External GPU Radeon 7900XTX
Headphones AirPods for work
SteelSeries Arctis V7 for gaming
Keyboard NuPhy Halo (plus another 20 ones, lol)
Mouse Logitech G Superlight Pro
Desk mat Harber London Wool-like
Docking station Ugreen 213 Pro
Web camera Opal C1
Microphone Shure
Audio card Focusrite
Chair Secret Lab Omega, Autonomous Pro (depends on the day)
Standing desk Tabletop: IKEA KARLBY
Legs: Flexispot

I’m trying to apply a tech minimalism concept to my setup. Instead of hoarding things, I aim to test as many items as possible and keep only those that are truly useful and of the best quality.

How many times have you bought something cheaper than what you actually wanted just because it was cheaper?

And how many times, after a month, did you end up spending even more money to get the thing you wanted in the first place?