How Nuon's Split Keyboard Culture Built an Ergonomic Hobbyist Community
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Summary
Nuon, a distributed tech company, has embraced split keyboards as an ergonomic solution for heavy typing workloads. The article explores how the company's culture strongly encourages the use of split keyboards, which has organically fostered a passionate hobbyist community among employees. The split keyboard's sci-fi aesthetic is a byproduct of its ergonomic focus, and the company views them as superior tools for high-volume typing compared to standard keyboards.
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For us and our needs, split keyboards are the Hokas of the typing world.
Their science-fiction aesthetic is the product of their hyper-focus on ergonomics.
Nuon strongly encourages the use of split keyboards, which has fostered a passionate hobbyist culture among employees.
