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Post by gonehome »

eric_b wrote: post #42

Working 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…

The writer is Taylor Lorenz - most of her stuff is pretty awful.

Earlier this year she attacked the Away CEO Steph Korey, she then spun Balaji's tweet that used Taylor's own words with a misleading crop to play victim:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-July-2020-Twitter-spat-bet...

She defends Tiktok and the CCP out of ignorance because she prefers writing everything as anti-facebook, anti-US tech (this was a similar twitter thing a couple months ago, but there's no quora summary).

Recently she was tweeting NIMBY style things about new housing ruining the character of the neighborhood and blaming tech for wanting more housing.

Everything she writes starts with a massive anti-tech motivated reasoning bias and then crafts a story around it. I think she also defended recode here, but I'm not 100% sure (I've since blocked her on Twitter): https://medium.com/@balajis/citations-for-the-recode-handsha...

I wouldn't put much thought into her articles, she's the main person that comes to mind when I think of the decline of the NYT.

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Post by st1x7 »

gopalv wrote: post #80
Raphmedia wrote: post #25

On 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…

> As a rule of thumb, your bed should be dedicated to sleep CGP Grey had a pretty good video about living in the lockdown titled "Spaceship you". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck I'd say that a lot of work that isn't really work can be done from bed, but it does mess up your training for "bed == sleep". I used to work from bed before 2020, but the lockdown has made the "walk downstairs to work, grab a coff…

This is also #1 in Grey's "7 Ways to Maximize Misery" Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o

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Post by aicioara »

tartoran wrote: post #29
wasdfff wrote: post #3

Speaking as someone who goes from bed to couch to bed during this pandemic due to a lack of desk space in my crampt apartment, I would murder someone if it meant I could claim their chair and desk and have actual lumbar support again.

Lumbar support is a false friend. I used to rely on this until I learned proper posture and did exercises to strenghten and relearn to use skeletal musculature correctly. I need not rest my back on anything now and my general health couldn’t be better. Unless you had a recent surgery and the body is weakened or you have a serious condition (torn discs, etc) I’d advise to try to ditch all these crutches which end up w…

Also curious

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Post by 8ytecoder »

ciceryadam wrote: post #163
reaperducer wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The average global house size is much larger than that. China has the smallest at 500 square feet, so my point stands.

House size maybe, but that leaves out bunch of other types of living. Not just apartments, but slum huts, refugee camp tents, and so on.

In houses that size, rooms convert from living -> dining -> study -> bedroom multiple times a day. Most households would have a clear time on when the mat comes out at night or when food is served or when the TV is turned on or off so the kids can study ...etc. At least that's how it was for us.

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Post by phreack »

kashyapc wrote: post #97
phreack wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going a bit further, if at all possible, my tip from many years of remote work is don't even have a computer in the room you sleep in. It's amazing how much the brain correlates rooms with tasks, and if you work in your bedroom you will have a worse quality of sleep.

Going to a different room may not be possible for everyone. We have to consider those who live in studio apartments and other kinds of smaller places. But your broader point stands—a decent enough separation between bed and work is critical. And take advantage of human nature: we're creatures of habit; build solid routines for compounding benefits.

Yes, it's definitely a luxury for many. I did find that setting up a dividing screen (made of basically hanging cloth) tricked my brain into believing a particular kind of one-room apartment was two, which helped a lot with keeping focus.

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Post by nutshell89 »

nucleardog wrote: post #167
nickelcitymario wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That commute turns out to be one of my favourite parts of the day. In the mornings, I leave early to workout at the company gym. (Not true at the moment, because all gyms are closed in my area right now.) That commute gives me time to wake up and get into the gym mindset. After work, it gives me time to unwind, let go of the stress for the day, and get into my dad-of-4 mindset. Without it, everything blends together.…

What's your commute like? The common thread I'm finding in the people that don't mind their commute is generally that... their commute isn't terrible. Mine's 45m-1h to work, and 1h-2h home in a city with notoriously awful traffic design and flow. It's basically just 5 miles of gridlock. In the heavy urban traffic I find it actually _adds_ a lot of stress to my day--it definitely feels like a mad max style survival ad…

Mine was 22-24 minutes each way on the subway — just enough time to read a few HN posts on the phone, listen to a quick podcast episode, or blast through an offline Spotify playlist. I think the best part of my commute was that it provided a 'clean break' between working at the office and my home life.

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Post by dumbfoundded »

gopalv wrote: post #80
Raphmedia wrote: post #25

On 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…

> As a rule of thumb, your bed should be dedicated to sleep CGP Grey had a pretty good video about living in the lockdown titled "Spaceship you". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck I'd say that a lot of work that isn't really work can be done from bed, but it does mess up your training for "bed == sleep". I used to work from bed before 2020, but the lockdown has made the "walk downstairs to work, grab a coff…

Solution: two beds. A work bed and a sleep bed.

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Post by manigandham »

SulfurHexaFluri wrote: post #144
Raphmedia wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that even working on a small desk next to your bed would be better than working directly from the bed.

Have been working from home from my bedroom for the last year, got a small desk with a 27" monitor and a second hand high end office chair. At the least its significantly better ergonomics than using a laptop in bed. Downside is I can't use my camera in calls since my background looks like crap and usually has my bf sleeping behind me.

Some conference apps have the ability to automatically blur or replace the background.

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Post by c0nsumer »

tartoran wrote: post #29
wasdfff wrote: post #3

Speaking as someone who goes from bed to couch to bed during this pandemic due to a lack of desk space in my crampt apartment, I would murder someone if it meant I could claim their chair and desk and have actual lumbar support again.

Lumbar support is a false friend. I used to rely on this until I learned proper posture and did exercises to strenghten and relearn to use skeletal musculature correctly. I need not rest my back on anything now and my general health couldn’t be better. Unless you had a recent surgery and the body is weakened or you have a serious condition (torn discs, etc) I’d advise to try to ditch all these crutches which end up w…

I recently was shopping for a new chair for home, and realized that... I don't actually need anything special because I habitually sit on the front half of the chair and don't rest my back against the back. So I just got one of the low-tier Steelcase chairs we have at the office and it's great! It'll last, and it's just... fine.

I tried sitting on a yoga ball for a while, but realized that it's not doing anything more for my back (because of how I already sit), but it's difficult to turn between my three laptops because the ball sticks to the floor and my clothes. So I went back to the chair.

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