Blaming one’s job for a split keyboard obsession

Rob Bruce wanted to share a bit about the keyboard culture at Nuon. The team has cultivated a passionate hobbyist culture around split keyboards.

The Nuon team is heavily distributed, and from frequent communication on Slack to daily coding, there’s a constant need for a high volume of typing. 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. They’re popular here because the ability to comfortably type for long periods of time perfectly aligns with Nuon’s culture of heavy experimentation and optimizing every aspect of our workflow.

Split keyboards aren’t cheap, and that’s a real barrier for curious folks who want to dip their toes in. Worse, the ecosystem is vast. There are so many flavors out there, you can burn through several before finding one that clicks (pun intended). It’s an investment of both money and time.

At Nuon, we’re fortunate to have leadership that walks the walk. Our founder and CEO, Jon Morehouse, is a devoted Kinesis Advantage2 user and has fostered an internal culture that encourages people to explore split keyboards. That encouragement is genuine. He’s even gifted a Kinesis Advantage2 to one of our engineers in India.

The result? Roughly 40% of Nuon employees are avid split keyboard users. That’s not a mandate, it’s organic adoption fueled by curiosity and peer support.

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