Review: Weekly Experiment: Standing desk

After a week trying this new setup for working, here the results.

The rules:

• During mornings sitting will be the default
• During afternoons standing will be the default
• During lunch-time standing will be the default

The control:

• Did it have any physical effect? 
• A big physical effect, the body feels better, although there were some small pains after the first days
• Did it have any food/drink related effect?
• Clearly, I consumed much less sugared drinks, not even coffee, and the body didn't ask for it.
• Did it have any sleep-related effect?
• Not sure if related to this single event, but I've been sleeping better.
• Did it affect in any way productivity and awareness?
• This was the biggest effect, procrastination decreased, interactions increased, awareness increase, hence productivity increased as well.

Result:  This is a must-do practice, I'm going to extend it to full work-days and not only in the afternoons, the effects have been so noticeable that I can't avoid feeling weird by sitting down.

Weekly Experiment: Standing desk

After listening to some interesting thoughts from Linda Rising at Software Engineering Radio, I've started a periodical experiment, time-boxed to a week in order to check results.

So this weeks is related to standing desk, not really a standing desk, but a platform that allows me to work while standing up.

The rules:

• During mornings sitting will be the default 
• During afternoons standing will be the default
• During lunch-time standing will be the default

The control:

• Did it have any physical effect? 
• Did it have any food/drink related effect?
• Did it have any sleep-related effect?
• Did it affect in any way productivity and awareness?