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I slept and worked in the same room for four months while I got TrailBehind going.

You do what you gotta do, but I'm glad to have separate rooms for these things now, even if I still spend all day in my house.

Today, my two co-founders and I share a cabin in Truckee... which is a pretty good place to build a hiking site. We programmed in the winter, and we have a lot of users around to talk to during the spring.

Hardly a new phenomenon, even in Web 2.0. del.icio.us, to take one example, operated lean like this for years. Think plastic lawn chairs:

http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg

They can't afford real furniture to sit in 12 hours per day, but they can afford bottled water?

Is that Hacker News on his left monitor? Get back to work!

Maybe the lawn chairs are a good thing, because they encourage you to stand up and take a break every once in a while? A few people have standup-desks at Google, and ergonomically they seem much better than the regular sit-down ones. Humans weren't built to sit in anything for 12 hours per day.

My favorite seat is a flat, backless piano bench. Not only does it encourage movement, also does it encourage great posture. ;) It's a bit like sitting on the floor, but a wee bit more ergonomically friendly.

I've never understood the bean bags.

I had a comfy bean bag chair set up for a while, and I think it was sort of good for exercise because I would drink a lot of assorted beverages (water, iced tea, coffee), so I would have to get my ass off the near-floor quite often, and the effort was greater than if I were sitting in a normal chair.

It also made it easy to slip into a short nap if I felt like it. :)

Do they use those stand-up Anthro carts, or something else? I'm interested in standing desks. Winston Churchill used one, I think.

Here's the whole story, including Richard White (kiko): http://blog.uservoice.com/2009/04/17/the-year-of-the-scrappy...

Interesting.... tsumobi.com. I've always been curious about what they've been up to since they originally had something similar to Hecl, apparently.

It's good to get press, but if your product is in "private beta" like tsumobi then maybe it is time to remove the cloak. Or else how can the free press be effective?

It's been in private beta for years at this point:-/

Tsumobi was in private beta when I was in YC. So much for launch fast and iterate.

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