The bottleneck might be the air in the room
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The bottleneck might be the air in the room
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#2> You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions.
A terrible way to make decisions.
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#3i love seeing things i saw on twitter two years ago at the front page of hn man like what are we doing
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#4Yet another reason to have meetings while walking outside: air quality and a natural limit on time, and the mental benefits that come from movement.
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#5> You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. A terrible way to make decisions.
What should be a better way?
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#6I really wish a Apple or another major OEM would integrate CO2 monitor into watches or smartphones. Suddenly, everybody would be aware of the CO2 level in the room, get alerts, etc. and the problem will just solve itself.
There are so many rooms, classrooms, movie theaters and other places with poor ventilation where you just feel dizzy, or fall asleep, not knowing it was just due to lower oxygen levels in your blood. Raising awareness is the only real solution.
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#7Don't forget too, if the CO2 is 1000 ppm, then half of the air in each breath you inhale was recently exhaled by someone else. Yes, airborne viruses are still spreading. I still wear an N95 mask whenever I'm in an indoor space with other people outside of home.
IKEA now has a remarkably cheap ($35) air quality monitor that measures CO2 as well as PM:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/alpstuga-air-quality-sensor-sma...
I don't have one yet but plan to pick one up soon. A CO2 sensor alone from Adafruit is $50+, though that one is more precise. I bought it a while ago and it's still sitting in my todo bin.
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#8The building science community has not buy and large came to the agreement that the CO2 itself is the cause of the cognitive decline. It could be the Canary in the coal mine telling us there is an accumulation of compounds causing the decline.
Why that matters? You need good ventilation regardless, but instead of just thinking of CO2, try to minimize compounds in your air by selecting things for the room that smell less and off-gas less.
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#9The building science community has not buy and large came to the agreement that the CO2 itself is the cause of the cognitive decline. It could be the Canary in the coal mine telling us there is an accumulation of compounds causing the decline. Why that matters? You need good ventilation regardless, but instead of just thinking of CO2, try to minimize compounds in your air by selecting things for the room that smell l…
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#10Yet another reason to have meetings while walking outside: air quality and a natural limit on time, and the mental benefits that come from movement.
Requires an area around your office that isn't ugly or overrun with cars.