I get upset every time bastards like Mr JoelOnSoftware write about their office setups.

• Crap Chair – check
• Single CRT Monitor – check
• Open Noisy Office – CHECK
• Wear headphones to combat distractions – CHECK
• Realise that all this is very bad – check

(Note: I don’t actually work in an office of my current employer; our office back in Sydney would score better than my current location if compared against the points in Joel’s article – but not a great deal better, but we fit into the ‘it’s hard to do these thing if you’re a VC company‘ category so it can be a bit hard, here there is no good excuse for it being so terrible.)