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Re:Standing Desk Might Be as Bad as Sitting All Day by atoav on Monday November 11, 2024 @03:10AM (#42105324)
That is the optimum frequency — if you just wanna reap in the health benefits it could look like:

    0 min: start working
    
    10 min: refactored a few things, get a glas of water, look out of the window
    
    40 min: started working on a particular though problem, somewhat stuck, get up and stretch a little while thinking
    
    60 min: found a good solution to though problem, keep it in your head, goto kitchen get another glas of water
    
    120 min: after an hour of uninterrupted flow the though problem is solved, stand up, get a cup of tea, think about whether it is really adequately solved
    
    etc.   
Every twenty minutes makes it sound as if you are a slave to the clock and interrupt the flow just whenever — but if you want to make this work you just have to find the spots where standing up feels natural and do it. Those don't have to be exactly 20 minutes apart. Even just standing up once is already better than staying put for hours.

I program myself and found a change of perspective and bodily motion in the right spots can help concentration, not break it, especially in the long run. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If you have a variable height desk, you can also alternate between sitting and standing, which can also help as you now have at least two different resting poses with slightly different kinds of strain.

Re:Standing Desk Might Be as Bad as Sitting All Day by greentxt on Monday November 11, 2024 @10:16AM (#42107720)
If you work from home you can spread monitors out, so you switch positions while working on a problem without losing focus the same way you switch back and forth on a dual monitor setup. E.g. Have documentation on monitor one at a standup station in one corner of the room, the other monitor with code a few feet away at a desk, email on a laptop in a separate room, etc...

And drinking more coffee helps a lot. You have to get up to make the coffee, then to pee it out. The caffiene in sufficuent quantity makes it hard to sit still. You talk faster so people think you're more productive too.

Re:Standing Desk Might Be as Bad as Sitting All Day by exe34 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @04:12AM (#42113956)
>found a good solution to though problem

> -keep it in your head,

+write it down