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Standing desk updates

I’ve added updates to the bottom of Monday’s post, including some additional resources, answers to reader questions, some of the best reader advice, and my

The standing desk: I am a convert

Updated Sept 19, 2013. I suffered two years of upper back pain, brought on primarily by (a) stress, (b) carrying a child, and (c) sitting

2014: The annual report

Every year about this time, I escape from either work or family obligations to thank everyone for reading, and of course navel gaze a little, reporting back

Links I liked

Norway’s oil fund owns 1.3% of every public company in the world Aravindan Thirunavukarasu urinated on a wall and then made a font out it IKEA

Links I liked

For those who want to take the standing desk to the next level Amazon’s (incomplete) case against Hachette (Anyone seen the other perspectives?) “What in the

I, stand-vangelist

The scales have fallen from Emily Oster’s eyes. She is a standing desk convert. When I am not evangelizing about cash transfer programs, I am pushing

This blog in 2013

The big news of the year: The blog survived baby number two. This was not foreordained. I came close to quitting, because at some point

Book: Why We Fight

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The standanista manifesto

A send up from the New Yorker Indeed, sitting has been called the new smoking. The only difference is that smoking looks cool and is a

Bureaucratics

That is the title of Jan Banning’s outstanding photo series, of bureaucrats around the world at their desks. Hat tip to Salo C.

Why We Fight - Book Cover

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