Thank you for the suggestion. Iām always open for ideas on productivity improvements, especially if they directly affect charity entrepreneurs ;)
We generated a list of 100 ideas and prioritized them based on things like expected effect on the general population, on me and Joey, ease of testing, etc. As far as I remember, rotating positions from sitting on an office chair to standing to sit on a ball or laying on a couch are more strongly recommended than any single one of those. I think testing all of the tools you can use to be physically active would be an interesting separate experiment in itself. Have you ever tried a mini-stepper? How did you find the effects of a treadmill compared to a mini-stepper?
I havenāt tried a mini-stepper! Next time Iām at the gym Iāll check if they have one I can try. Even if it does not work as well, it would certainly be a lot cheaper and more portable.
Untested Speculation: People using steppers/ābikes etc. might stop exerting conscious attention to move once they get sufficiently absorbed in their work. A special property of treadmills is that if you stop, youāll be carried backwards and away from your keyboardāthis trains you out of stopping pretty instantly. Steppers/ābikes/āetc wouldnāt automatically have this propertyāthough perhaps one could mimic the training by adding a ādonāt stop!ā signalling noise or something. Ultimately I think itās probably important that the movement not require much conscious attention.
Thank you for the suggestion. Iām always open for ideas on productivity improvements, especially if they directly affect charity entrepreneurs ;)
We generated a list of 100 ideas and prioritized them based on things like expected effect on the general population, on me and Joey, ease of testing, etc. As far as I remember, rotating positions from sitting on an office chair to standing to sit on a ball or laying on a couch are more strongly recommended than any single one of those. I think testing all of the tools you can use to be physically active would be an interesting separate experiment in itself. Have you ever tried a mini-stepper? How did you find the effects of a treadmill compared to a mini-stepper?
I havenāt tried a mini-stepper! Next time Iām at the gym Iāll check if they have one I can try. Even if it does not work as well, it would certainly be a lot cheaper and more portable.
Untested Speculation: People using steppers/ābikes etc. might stop exerting conscious attention to move once they get sufficiently absorbed in their work. A special property of treadmills is that if you stop, youāll be carried backwards and away from your keyboardāthis trains you out of stopping pretty instantly. Steppers/ābikes/āetc wouldnāt automatically have this propertyāthough perhaps one could mimic the training by adding a ādonāt stop!ā signalling noise or something. Ultimately I think itās probably important that the movement not require much conscious attention.