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WFH.

I take my dog on a walk during standup.

I hang out with my kids when I can step out of the office.

I recently started exercising over lunch (this habit was never easy for me- it took getting Ring Fit Adventure on Nintendo Switch to start that).

I saved 15000 miles on my car’s odometer.

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Reconnecting with old friends from HS/college. We normally do a march camping trip every year. Not in 2020. Instead, We set up a discord server, and a Friday night video call on most nights for almost a year.

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Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators. So much fun.



I have dogs. I do stand-ups. I never thought of combining these. It makes so much sense because I can think better when walking. This is so simple yet brilliant!! Thanks for this.


Sure thing. I also like walking during meetings where I don’t need to reference information on a computer. 1-on-1s, certain design discussions, etc.


> I have dogs

I thought you were an atheist.


How do you do a standup while walking? I can understand audio through earphones, but don't you need to see like a JIRA board and are you able to do that on your phone?


The board gets screen shared. So I could do look on my phone if I wanted. But I don’t find it necessary.

I have the inverse question. How would you not be able to do standup while walking (given that you’re able-bodied)? Are you not prepared to say what you did yesterday and what you plan to do today? Or do you do a bunch of other tasks in your standup? Does the whole meeting take more than 10-15 minutes?

I take a look at the board in the morning and make sure it’s up to date, so I can speak to where all my items are at. Since I’m the dev lead on the team, I’m also aware of who’s working on which projects, so I can provide feedback/answer questions on their stuff, if it makes sense in the context of the meeting.




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