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Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day
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#22I find the healthiest thing to do is to work remote and move around your house doing errands while occasionally returning to your computer to type some thoughts on your mind and then return back to errands.
"work" remote:)
I know you're just messing around, but honestly I find I'm more work-productive doing this. The human mind is mobile and performs much better when you have some variety, movement, occasional relaxation. Obviously some people take advantage and don't really work, but I find that working 90-95% capacity and 5% walk around the house, BS with my wife, do some small chores etc. is a lot more productive than trying to work 100% and ending up stressed, overfocused, and burnt out.
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#23Study argues that movement is better than a static position (standing or sitting). Shocker.
What they're obviously missing is that when you're at a standing desk, the friction to engaging in some kind of movement is drastically decreased (unless you're talking about spinning).
While I stand at my desk, I frequently find myself pacing, jogging in place, stretching, etc. I don't have to first GET UP OUT OF A CHAIR.
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#24Walking desk it is!
My last company a number of people had treadmills. The walker always looked like they were headed toward me on calls. Group Zooms became hilariously ominous as more people marched toward me in unison.
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#25What I do is design everything while I’m up and about and on paper/whiteboard and then sit down just to code it out, it’s so much better, way better architectural outcomes when you start with sunshine and fresh air.
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#27Walking desk it is!
I have a walking pad under my desk and do at least a few miles every day. It’s great.
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#28I don't stand at my standing desk. I fidget more, I move more, I stretch more. When I'm in the office and seeing people at their standing desk, I don't see a single person who is just statically standing still all day.
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#29Walking desk it is!
My last company a number of people had treadmills. The walker always looked like they were headed toward me on calls. Group Zooms became hilariously ominous as more people marched toward me in unison.
Can people really type quickly and accurately on a treadmill at their desk? I tried that last year, and saw the error rate in my documents explode.
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#30My idea to solve all this would be to change how computing is done.
We don't talk about radical disruptive ideas enough these days.
What if we don't have to interact with computers from a stationary position at all? VR headsets are one direction that might help with this, but in my view there is another way. Decouple peripherals and computing units fully. You'd carry around with you a battery unit that will charge display and input units, and it wouldn't be carrying but maybe put on a strap on your arm, shoulder, back,etc.. (very lightweight). I wish I could draw this out and show you, but you would be able to sit, move around, even run. You can hold a display unit, but you can also have cheap display units on walls all over the office, house,etc.. and you'd attach sensors to the back of your arm that would sense finger movements for typing and controlling the mouse and view port.
Essentially, "monitors" would not be tied to one device, but whatever device is nearest to them, wirelessly. and 10-12" mobile monitors (like tablets but just the display,battery and wireless receiver board) that work in the same way would also be a thing. the actual computers would be in a static location.
Imagine just sitting at a desk, or walking up to a wall, running on a treadmill, or taking a walk outside and you can still do the same exact task, just as if you were sitting down in front of a laptop.
If it were that simple, someone would have done it, I get that. But we need to talk about ideas like this (I'm sure there are better ones).