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Moving my office out of my bedroom eliminated 99% of the claustrophobia I had developed. Having where you work and sleep in two different mental compartments is more valuable than you could ever anticipate.
I can't quite get the see webcam to make me look like I'm sitting normally though so I have to sit up sometimes like some kind of pre-COVID animal in an "office".
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> 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.
I've been WFH full time since 2011. I could not even finish this article. Anyone who thinks that working from bed is good in any way, shape, or form, is deluding themselves. It's an ergonomic nightmare that is unsustainable. It's lack of separation between Life and Work. It's everything WFH should NOT be. In a year, there will be another article that says "Working from Bed: Maybe not so much"
I work from my bed, I work at my desk, I work pretty much everywhere in my home and it's not at all a problem. I'm really annoyed by these overgeneralisations about what's right or wrong for individuals, and all these buzzwords about "separation of life and work", "work-life balance", I love my work and I sleep like a mule even if I work ten minutes before I go to sleep.
I don't at all get these neurotic optimisations that people make, and having random strangers tell them how to live in their own home. If you like to work from your bed work from your bed, if it doesn't work for you stop, but to tell people they're delusional is nuts.
It's not just about this particular topic, there seems to be an entire emerging industry of life-coaches, sleep and whatever else coaches who try to convince people of strange norms that they have to uphold in their workplace or home. It's like the Western version of Feng Shui or something, oh no you slept badly a week, bring in the sleep coach to rearrange your furniture and exorcise the bad software from your bedroom
I'd suggest people who need to compartmentalise their work from their life this much to ask if it isn't that they're unsatisfied with their job that makes them sleepless rather than doing work on a bed.
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…
Oohh look at these people with more than one room! (Ok it's valid for those.. but I'm still feeling a bit salty.)
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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…
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…
Oohh look at these people with more than one room! (Ok it's valid for those.. but I'm still feeling a bit salty.)
I thought I might go stir crazy or have elevated levels of conflict with my wife, but it worked out okay. On the other hand, I can understand why the Council of Europe deems 8 sq. m. (86 sq. ft.) the minimum prison cell size for two prisoners.
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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…
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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…
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I've been WFH full time since 2011. I could not even finish this article. Anyone who thinks that working from bed is good in any way, shape, or form, is deluding themselves. It's an ergonomic nightmare that is unsustainable. It's lack of separation between Life and Work. It's everything WFH should NOT be. In a year, there will be another article that says "Working from Bed: Maybe not so much"
>Anyone who thinks that working from bed is good in any way, shape, or form, is deluding themselves I work from my bed, I work at my desk, I work pretty much everywhere in my home and it's not at all a problem. I'm really annoyed by these overgeneralisations about what's right or wrong for individuals, and all these buzzwords about "separation of life and work", "work-life balance", I love my work and I sleep like a…