Most standing desks have a grommet hole somewhere in the desktop. Usually it is plugged with a cheap plastic cap that you ignore until you start thinking about cable management. That hole is actually the best path for running power up from under the desk. A power grommet replaces the cap with outlets and USB ports mounted flush into the desktop. No cables draped over the edge. No reaching underneath. ...
Your desk has sticky notes in three colors, a pile of loose paper, two notebooks (one for work, one for personal), and somewhere in there is the to-do list you wrote four days ago that you haven’t looked at since. A physical planning board is the fix — something you can see without unlocking your phone, write on without logging in, and change without having to find the right app. ...
I spent two years ignoring the dull ache in my right wrist before I finally did something about it. Every afternoon, around 3 PM, my hand would start to feel tight, and by 5 PM I was shaking it out between clicks. A coworker let me try her vertical mouse and within a week I’d ordered my own. The pain didn’t vanish overnight, but it went from “I should see a doctor” to “I notice it sometimes.” ...