<story><title>Poll: Where do you work (physically)?</title><text>Inspired by confusion about this poll question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250&lt;p&gt;Where do you physically do most of your work?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Believe it or not I do much of my work walking along the street.  When I&apos;m doing office hours at YC (and the weather&apos;s good and we don&apos;t need to look at screens) I usually suggest going for a walk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmaunder</author><text>You need to get your ass back in that office and code.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Just realized I replied to pg. Well, get your ass back into that office and implement some of those great ideas then.</text></comment>
<story><title>Poll: Where do you work (physically)?</title><text>Inspired by confusion about this poll question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250&lt;p&gt;Where do you physically do most of your work?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Believe it or not I do much of my work walking along the street.  When I&apos;m doing office hours at YC (and the weather&apos;s good and we don&apos;t need to look at screens) I usually suggest going for a walk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kunley</author><text>Very smart strategy, considering this:&lt;p&gt;Just today I&apos;ve heard a theory, that when you walk around brain is more able to try new ways of thinking and solving problems, because the &apos;motion center&apos; in the brain is doing what it&apos;s supposed to do: handling one&apos;s movements. On the contrary when we are not moving, this center can often 
overwhelm the thought process with already established habits, which makes trying new things harder.&lt;p&gt;I thing it works - even in offices many people start walking in circles when they have an important decision to make.&lt;p&gt;Funny, in my language the word meaning &apos;reflexively&apos;, &apos;instinctively&apos; is in a form which can be literally translated &apos;out of the movement&apos;, which quite fits this theory.&lt;p&gt;I didn&apos;t look for the scientific background, but I know from the context of how I&apos;ve heard this, that it was taught at the univ on a psychology specialization.</text></comment>