My Standing Desk Experiment

15 August 2011

I’ve read about standing desks some time ago. Since then, an untouched project sits in my ToDo app. Today I was bored enough to give it a shot. My desk looks quite funny now with all the boxes on top. Hurray, I’ve done it!

I’ve done it mostly out of curiosity. There are some researches claiming that sitting all day is bad for your health, but you can find similar results for standing all day. That’s just how it is: Too much of anything is bad for you. That’s no real surprise, is it? Besides, all the cool people stand to work: Shawn Blanc, Marco Arment (Instapaper), Hemingway, Churchill, … Alright, that’s it. I’ll tell you how it works out for me in a couple of weeks!

Sources & Further Reading

• http://zenhabits.net/stand/
• http://shawnblanc.net/2011/08/barr-standing/
• http://articles.marco.org/268
• http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/13/the-dangers-of-sitting-at-work—and-standing/