Winston Churchill famously did most of his work from bed and he won World War II, so I buy it.
Working from Bed
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#122On the opposite, I'd say it's a great way to destroy your sleep routine and habits. As a rule of thumb, your bed should be dedicated to sleep and cuddles with your significant other. "This study indicates that the use of computers and mobile telephones in the bedroom are related to poor sleep habits" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2869... "Computer use, TV viewing, and the presence of media i…
Oohh look at these people with more than one room! (Ok it's valid for those.. but I'm still feeling a bit salty.)
Oohh look at these people with more than one room!
I feel ya.
Back when I was running a one-man startup, I had myself, my wife, and a cat in 450 square feet. Except when I was out gladhanding potential clients, I worked from my bed.
At least back then, I could decamp for Starbucks if I got the crazies. But today's studio apartment dwellers are really screwed. Especially if you live somewhere hot, somewhere cold, or a city that removed all of the public benches to "combat" homelessness.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely takes getting used to. I've been exclusively WFH for 8 years now and it's hard to imagine going back at this point, but it took a while to develop that groove. My first job out of college, my boss actually told me "Don't miss meetings, don't miss deadlines and I don't care when you're here." About 3 weeks in I was dying to go to the office and just stayed there all the time. In order to make WFH work fo…
>I keep a TV on in the background, out of sight (usually the weather channel). I don't know why, but it makes the house feel less empty all day. I think the world is split into people who really need a background soundtrack of some sort and those who hate it. Back when I sometimes had a roommate on group (non-work) trips, one of the things that drove me craziest was someone who just had to turn on the TV as soon as t…
I dream that one day I’ll be able to turn my ears on and off at will. Earplugs work alright, but complete silence would be fantastic (personal safety be damned)
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if my significant other is a copy of Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler?
The gravitational time dilation from proximity to the book does not work in your favor, better to leave it on the shelf while you sleep.
The book helps -- clocks deeper in a gravitational potential run slow relative to those higher in the potential.
As I recall from Hartle, to paraphrase: "The experimentalists in the basement live longer than the theorists upstairs, but the view is worth it." My recollection from the associated problem is that the difference, over a lifetime, is microseconds.
MTW won't give even that much aid :). Good luck with your studies; there's a lot to learn.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I keep a TV on in the background, out of sight (usually the weather channel). I don't know why, but it makes the house feel less empty all day. I think the world is split into people who really need a background soundtrack of some sort and those who hate it. Back when I sometimes had a roommate on group (non-work) trips, one of the things that drove me craziest was someone who just had to turn on the TV as soon as t…
I dream that one day I’ll be able to turn my ears on and off at will. Earplugs work alright, but complete silence would be fantastic (personal safety be damned)
When you get old-enough, a cochlear implant is exactly that.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I keep a TV on in the background, out of sight (usually the weather channel). I don't know why, but it makes the house feel less empty all day. I think the world is split into people who really need a background soundtrack of some sort and those who hate it. Back when I sometimes had a roommate on group (non-work) trips, one of the things that drove me craziest was someone who just had to turn on the TV as soon as t…
The key for me is noise that I'm not trying to listen to. The weather channel can be on and I have no need to try to focus on it. If I put music on, it needs to be pretty consistent tempo with no words so that it's "there" but I'm not listening to it. The original Ironman soundtrack was my goto for this for years.
Yeah, for something like sleeping on a plane, I'll usually put something like new age-y instrumentals on. I just can't really ignore something even as uninteresting as The Weather Channel. It's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
The gravitational time dilation from proximity to the book does not work in your favor, better to leave it on the shelf while you sleep.
The book helps -- clocks deeper in a gravitational potential run slow relative to those higher in the potential. As I recall from Hartle, to paraphrase: "The experimentalists in the basement live longer than the theorists upstairs, but the view is worth it." My recollection from the associated problem is that the difference, over a lifetime, is microseconds. MTW won't give even that much aid :). Good luck with your s…
You have gravity right, but the impact reversed.
By being lower in the gravity well, you get less sleep than if your clock had run faster.
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#128Working from bed is great? What? Who at the NYT thought this was worth publishing? This is a great way to increase mental health issues, decrease physical health and hygiene and generally make everything worse. Maybe in the future when morbidly obese humans float around in hover beds and purchase things only from Buy-N-Large this will be "great" - but this reeks of a strange "pro COVID lockdown" narrative I've been s…
One of the only reasons I don't work from my bed is that it would destroy my back. If I had purchased one of those beds where you can electrically raise the back I would have worked so many more hours - and been more comfortable.
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#129I spend 90% of my working day horizontal - bed, sofa and even the bath. I don't admit to it often but there you go.
It's not good for you long term. I recommend taking one of the bedrooms in your house and converting into a proper home office. And wear slightly more formal clothing than pyjamas. It does wonders to productivity and discipline.
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#130As a teen, 20 years ago, I always did my homework from my bed, as that was about all I had. I don’t think that it challenged me in any way and it may have enhanced my thought processes as they article notes. Certain postures are said to influence the way you process and think.
For example, I definitely read books from bed, as I’m sure others do as well, even those that object to television or working from bed. Thinking about it now, lying down may help to displace my mind to the story more than sitting.