2026-05-22 · The Sobopad story
Thirty percent of your life is in this chair. Look at the chair.
Salaried people run the world from a chair. We did the math. It's thirty percent of your life. So why is your desk so depressing?
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Notes from the desk
Stories, reviews and small ideas about the desk, the work, and the thirty percent of life we all spend in a chair.
2026-04-18 · Sobopack
The Bombay local problem (or, why we made Sobopack)
Two laptops, a tiffin, a charger, a notebook, and a half-broken umbrella. The 9.07 from Andheri does not care about your backpack from Stockholm.
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2026-03-29 · SoboPad Base
The desk mat that (quietly) fixed my Monday
I did not buy the Base to fix my Monday. I bought it because the desk looked like a crime scene. Then a small thing happened.
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2026-03-09 · SoboPad Rise
Ten seconds to a standing desk (or, the airport lounge story)
I was at Mumbai T2, my flight was delayed by three hours, I had a board deck due in two. The Rise was in my bag. So I made a desk.
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2026-02-21 · SoboPad Scribe
The meeting where I stopped typing (Scribe, an honest review)
For ten years I have been the colleague who types in meetings. People found it rude. I found it necessary. Then a notebook and a pen changed both problems.
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2026-01-31 · SoboFocus
The hourglass experiment (forty-five minutes of nobody bothering me)
We put a hourglass on every desk in the office for one month. The number of interruptions per person went down by sixty percent. Here's what we learned.
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