For the sake of safety, I don’t listen to anything when I go on bike rides (usually 1-3 hours). I wouldn’t want to go on a long trip without music or podcasts because I enjoy listening to them, not because I need to.
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We used to listen to 6 Music in the office and I found some stuff I really liked through there. Then they changed stuff around and it was no longer Lauren Laverne in the morning and Radcliffe & Maconie in the afternoon and I lost interest (and then working from home, etc happened).
These days, I find new stuff through random avenues like record company newsletters that I get signed up to because I bought stuff on Bandcamp.
Oddly, a lot of my recent new discoveries were because of Instagram ads.
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Radio 2 in my ancient (15 year old car) when I’m car sharing. Their drive time offerings are totally middle of the road.
On my own? Bluetooth receiver and aux cable for some podcast time.
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Shouldn’t it be on the left? 
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On some of the roads here, it’s the same thing.
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I basically only listen to music while working, and I can’t be distracted by someone talking at me or maybe even new music, so I just listen to my 40,000 ish mp3s on shuffle. Mostly hoovered up from people’s iPods back when couchsurfing was a thing, so I have music from all over the world. Lyrics in languages I don’t understand are quite good in not disrupting focus.
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Perhaps it’s an odd thing, but I struggle to enjoy music in another language until I can find a translation of the lyrics. I need to know what’s being said.
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I can’t listen to pop-ish music without understanding the lyrics. I have no problem listening to ‘classical’ (in any of the reasonable definitions) in a language I don’t understand, or even in one I do where understanding what’s sung is basically impossible.
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I swapped to Greatest Hits Radio because they have basically recreated old Radio 2 with Simon Mayo doing the drivetime show!
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I have this too. I want to listen to the lyrics and understand them, even meaningless pop nonsense, which is why I can’t listen to any music at all when I’m working. It’s too distracting. If there’s very loud noise that I need to down out I’ll listen to film scores or classical music, but for the most part I prefer working/writing in silence. I struggle to focus otherwise.
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My office has just been refurbished so I now have a (manually adjustable) standing desk.
Today I finally decided to try it out and I think I like it. Shame I hurt my wrist raising the damned thing.
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I have a standing desk in the office and I’m a big fan (I also have a big fan).
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I dislike standing desks.
Also, I don’t know how to work them.
(wait for it…)
(wait for it…)
I can’t stand them.
Boom! Boom!
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I’d give you a standing ovation… but you really don’t deserve one for that…
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I would use a standing desk, but I haven’t figured out how to slouch correctly while working at one, so I continue to use my sitting desk.
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I’m one of those annoying people who have been using a standing desk since before it was a thing. I started more or less by accident, I was running a garage (an old fashioned gas and service station) and had to cover the closing shift sometimes. It was generally pretty quiet, so I did paperwork, standing behind the counter. Got used to not sitting , so when I went back to an office, I pretty quickly raised my desk on blocks. I eventually had to get a ‘proper’ standing desk, because the money guy came in, and thought cinder blocks weren’t quite the image he wanted us to project. (We also got new kitchen appliances and some networking infrastructure upgrades.).
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I literally cannot stand still for more than a few minutes without back pain, and it makes me sad that sitting all day is both making things worse and the only option.
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I have a daily intention to stand at my standing desk, which pairs well with light daily shame.
I used to do better. At first, I’d lose focus after about 5 minutes but each day it got a little longer and eventually I was standing for an hour a day.
Then I got le tired.
Maybe tomorrow…
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I did two sessions of 45 minutes yesterday, one after my morning coffee and one after lunch. Will try that again today.
I’ve seen at least one person hunched over with elbows on their standing desk so slouching is certainly possible even when standing.
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I usually do the mornings standing - it’s definitely possible to slouch!
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