The great violin maker Antonio Stradivari is reputed to have said that perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things but in doing “ordinary things extraordinarily well”.
Few things are more ordinary than sitting. But done less than well it hurts – first a little, then a lot.
I have been sitting in a chair like this for years. It’s great for the back, but can become very hard on the knees. This hasn’t bothered me before, but it does now – for whatever reasons.
So I don’t sit as well as I used to – which means my keyboard and mouse are not perfectly positioned either. And we all know by now that hands that hurt are serious.
Lots of geeks (famous or not) apparently want to sit in this one. So I tried the Herman Miller Aeron today – it wasn’t love at first sitting, but definitely a very special feeling.
So maybe that’s it. Or maybe the solution is not a new chair but a better place for keyboard and mouse?
I tried a stand almost like this one today. It wasn’t wide enough for both my Natural Keyboard and my mousepad – but the model pictured here is… we’ll see if I can get my hands on one tomorrow.
This will be definitely be continued.