Roughly four years ago, I bought myself a sit-stand desk for my home office. Sitting is sedentary and standing is healthier, I was told. As I wrote at the time, “My idea was that I would stand whenever I was working, and sit when I am not working. Given that the former tends to be more than…
There is an old joke that I usually find amusing: If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of? I tend to prefer less clutter, but my default appears to be mild clutter. At times, however, things get out of hand and my desk becomes…
During Amazon’s Prime days, I finally bit the bullet and decided to order a new desk for my office. I had my old desk for more than seven years. It was a glass-topped desk that I thought was great at the time, but I grew to hate it, mainly because I could never seem to…
There ought to be a measurement, like the temperature, that we can use to easily indicate to family, friends, and colleagues how busy we are. It would be nice to be able to say, “Sorry, I can’t meet for lunch, my busy-ness number is at 8 today.” There are all kinds of tools and gadgets…
We moved into our new house on Tuesday and one of the first things I did was get as much of my new office setup as possible. I had to be able to work on Wednesday, and I needed my office to do that. Our new neighbors mentioned that they were impressed with how quickly…