Standing desks are all the rage nowadays. Apparently it promotes everything from better posture to reducing the risk of cancer, but I think it’s really just an opportunity to be the one cool guy in the office who’s standing and not slouching in their chair all day. We have one of those guys at the grand headquarters of The Inertia in Venice, California. His name’s Kristian and he’s the only person on the whole floor with the fancy standing desk set up. One minute you walk by and he’s standing. The next day he’s cruising at his desk in a fancy rolly office chair. The next time you walk by, he’s putting on his motorcycle helmet, wrapping up another productive day at the office and ready to whisk away on his 1200cc stallion. You never know what you’re going to get from Kristian. He’s rogue. And that’s cool. So in my extensive quantitative research on the correlation between standing desks and being cool, I can comfortably say my theory is on point – standing desks make you cool.
Surfing is also cool. But you don’t need to go surveying your office to know that one. So somebody in good ole Silicon Valley, the cubicle life/start up/forward thinking capital of the world, decided to mash the two together into a verb: Wurf. Because work + surf = awesome (but really, Surf – work = true awesome). The idea is that standing desks alone don’t keep you active and their new Kickstarter campaign is aimed at solving that major first world problem. So just as sitting in a chair all day lowers energy, lowers productivity, and heightens the chances of killing you, the standard standing desk is also unhealthy without significant movement. So basically your 9-5 is driving you to a slow and boring death no matter what now. Meanwhile, the Wurf Board is a tiny little air-spring surface that you’ll pretty much want to bounce on and goof around with all day long. They say it feels like surfing/skating/snowboarding. I’m not sure this looks much like surfing to me, but if somebody in the office here wants to push me on one of these things and spray a bunch of water on my back as I triumphantly shoot out of the office elevator like a doubled up backside barrel then I’m up for the challenge. I think I’d look pretty cool doing that.
