Notes for June 14–21

My back is still giving me trouble, but a week’s worth of moving about carefully and a little exercise “fixed” it (as in, I can stand again for extended periods of time). And I’ve pinned down the most likely cause–I have been spending far too much time sitting at my desk. As much as I love working remotely, the relentless (and sometimes idiotic) pace of dozens of daily meetings (often booked haphazardly and with the usual sense of bogus urgency that comes with the typical corporate need to “take action” without any proper briefings or preparedness) keeps being the one thing that I hate about my current role, and it’s again destroying my health in excitingly painful ways… Even with daily walks outside (now in jeopardy from a coming heat wave) and regular standing/walking breaks to just think between calls, I definitely need to go back to my makeshift standing desk for a while and, again, ponder upgrading my actual, huge (180x90 cm) desk to something healthier, if necessarily smaller.…