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Makeshift standing desk thread! I've been a standing desk worker for nearly 6 years. Took a month or two of no seated desk option to switch from "uncomfortable after 30min standing" to "can stand all day; uncomfortable after 30min sitting" Evolution of my main standing desk:
Simplest makeshift standing desk = a desk made for tall chairs/stools. Remove chair & you're good to go. Left is Montreal airport, right is @Communitech Hub. Many airports & university buildings have tall desks like this.
Here's one of my more creative makeshift standing desks, from one time I was visiting my mum.
I once made a desk (enough to reproduce my double-monitor & split keyboard config shown in first tweet) entirely out of a wide variety of cardboard boxes stacked on top of a table, but I don't seem to have a photo of it. @jamesnorris_ do you have pics from Focus Week Feb 2016?
Here's a more boring cardboard box, from a time when I was invited by the now-owner of my childhood home (in a very small town) to spend an evening journalling there. Was a cool experience that I hope I get to do again. Attic turret:
I've also sometimes used a set of shelves/cupboards as standing desks but apparently I don't currently have any photos of those! Which is unfortunate because they'd be pretty funny to see. Now that this thread exists I'll be much more likely to document them probably.
Ah here's another! Feb 2016, right after the aforementioned Focus Week I set this up in the room of my then-girlfriend, who I was staying with that month. Note the extra piece of cardboard to keep the keyboard from slipping off (near side) I miss that water bottle. Left on ✈️😢
Here's an excellent set-up using the TV at a motel in Northern Ontario while on roadtrip across Canada with @SarahAMcManus
This shelf is probably the first serious time I've had monitors side-by-side in about 7 years. Kinda novel but I way prefer the above-below set-up for a host of reasons. Though hard to tell at this phase if that's not just because I'm used to it.
...literally hours after arriving at this new airbnb, I've got this new set-up. This is when I made this 🦫 beaver remark that Sarah quoted 👇
from a retreat with @LordChisholm & @SarahAMcManus in January (also we've taken to calling it a mechsuit, because I feel kinda naked using my laptop without it)
And then while staying at my cousin's place on Vancouver Island this winter, @SarahAMcManus and I had only one room to take calls so I made a portable keyboard+mouse tray that I could move to a makeshift desk in the hallway in like 2mins nomadism is improving my thing
iteration 1 of a standing desk when I was staying at @LordChisholm's last summer (dunno why I didn't post it at the time) (I didn't use the milk crates, they were an older idea but wrong size & ugly)
unfortunately I don't seem to have gotten a pic of the final version of my actual attempt at a permanent standing desk, from when I moved out this spring, but here's iteration 1 from last fall the media stand / shelf in back was perfect
left: standing desk made of boxes in a hotel room in Berlin right: better standing desk in my cabin here in Bali (I'm at this one as I type)
