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Desk life

The perfect desk setup does not exist

By Symon1 min read

A tidy desk with a laptop and a lamp

A well-set-up desk is worth having, in the way a decent mattress is worth having: it removes an obstacle. What it cannot do is substitute for movement, because the thing wearing you down is duration, not millimetres.

What is worth the money

TODO(client): to be written. Cover screen height and elbow angle as the two adjustments that matter, standing desks as a way of changing position rather than a cure, and the point that the best chair is the one you leave regularly.

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Symon, Cirque du Soleil artist and founder of Move Better

Symon

Cirque du Soleil artist · founder of Move Better

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