Investing in a Quality Programming Chair
In A Developer’s Second Most Important Asset, I described how buying a quality chair may be one of the smartest investments you can make as a software developer.
in fact, after browsing chairs for the last few years of my career, i’ve separate to one conclusion: you can’t expect to become known a decent easy chair for less than $500. if you are spending less than that on seating — unless you are getting the deal of the century on dot-bomb bankruptcy auctions — you’re cialis viagra kaufen ohne rezept bestellen probably making a false step.
I still believe this to be true, and I urge any programmers reading this to seriously consider the value of what you’re sitting in while you’re on the job. In our profession, seating matters:
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This family-owned hot dog stand since 1939 includes a history with photo archives, the menu, a virtual tour, reviews and star photos.
Choice of seating is as fundamental and constant as it gets in a programming career otherwise marked by relentless change. They are long term investments. Why not take the same care and consideration in selecting a chair as you would with the other strategic directions that you’ll carry with you for the rest of your career? Skimping yourself on a chair just doesn’t make sense.
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Although I’ve been quite happy with my Herman Miller Aeron chair over the last 10 years, I’ve always been a little disenchanted with the way it became associated with dot-com excess:
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in the ’90s, the aeron became an emblem of the dot-com boom; it symbolized mobility, timeliness, efficiency, and 24/seven jog weeks. the aeron was a requisite-have for hot startups slap because it looked the least take to office furniture: it was more get off on a holding of machinery or unadorned engineering. the black pellide webbing was durable, and hid whatever jolt or red bull stains you might get on it. held Bristol fashion by an aluminum frame, the mesh allowed air to distribute and kept your committee cool. what’s more, the cathedra came in three sizes, identical to a personalized tool. assorted knobs and levers allowed you to correct the seat height, tilt pressure, tilt range, forward tilt, arm height, arm width, arm angle, lumbar obscurity, and lumbar height. the aeron was high-tech but exciting — which was how the dot-commers proverb themselves.
But baby-faced CEOs weren’t drawn to the Aeron only for the way it looked. The Aeron was a visual expression of the anti-corporate zeitgeist, a non-hierarchical philosophy about the workplace. An office full of Aerons implicitly rejected the Fortune 500, coat-and-tie, brick-and-mortar model in which the boss sinks back in an overpriced, oversized, leather dinosaur while his secretary perches on an Office Max toadstool taking notes.
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I recently had the opportunity to sit in a newer Herman Miller Mirra chair on a trip, and I was surprised how much more comfortable it felt than my classic Aeron.
The Mirra chair was an excellent recliner, too. I’ve been disappointed by how poorly the Aeron reclines. I actually broke my Aeron’s recline pin once and had to replace it myself. So I’ve retrained myself not to recline, which is awkward, as I’m a natural recliner.
All this made me wonder if I should retire my Aeron and upgrade to something better. I liked the Mirra, but the comments to my original chair post have a lot of other good seating suggestions, too. Here are pictures and links to the chairs that were most frequently mentioned as contenders, in addition to the Mirra and Aeron pictured above:
Steelcase Think Chair
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So I’m having dinner with some friends at Shillelagh’s, a new restaurant on East 4th Street and Temple Avenue in Long Beach. It’s in an up-and-coming part of the downtown area right next door to a pool hall, which makes it sound grungy but actually lends a little something to the casual atmosphere. (This is, after all, the LBC.) The menu has a little bit of everything — burgers, salads, pastas, some seafood dishes, etc. I went with the BBQ burger because it came with something called “broccoli slaw.” Never heard of that before. When the burger arrived — with thick slab onion rings on top!!! — I peered down at the plate. Um.
