Why do East Asians hate sleeping in tall places? From personal experience, I find sleeping on a bed too tall annoying due to the risk of falling out. It is also annoying to get up in the morning and basically fall off the bed if it is slightly higher than leg height. I cannot see any benefit other than space-saving reasons. I also do not enjoy hammocks for their instability.
It was true historically. It’s true in the modern era, as someone wrote their own blog post critiquing couches. There are Japanese and Korean floor mats.
Actually, as this tweet points out, it was common in other parts of the world as well. I suspect a small but positive correlation between traits such as gregariousness, friendliness to strangers, desire to explore random places across the world, and the height at which someone will sleep, which also explains why East Asians don’t want to travel anymore.
It may be that eliminating chairs and putting desks near the floors actually increases developer productivity. For all the talk about chair posture, what if the best posture inherently happens when someone is sitting on the floor?
It is well known that organisms such as bacteria change the environment around them to be more suitable for their own living. Culture and infrastructure are in ways a representation of this. Imagine sitting in a room where all the furniture and wall heights are appropriate for you, but terrible feeling for everyone else. Certainly you would be advantaged. You must invert the question: is society itself disadvantaging you by its construction? Think of how Stephen Schwarzman redecorated his office, which was unheard of but made sense.
I was never going to settle on offices that were less than perfect. The rewards of having a beautiful space that attracted the best people and gave our clients greater confidence in our abilities would far exceed the cost of paying a little extra to close the deal.
It is your mission as a living organism to change things that are inappropriate.
