Home Office Is Sabotaging You(oedmethod.substack.com)
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Home Office Is Sabotaging You
https://oedmethod.substack.com/p/your-home-office-is-sabotaging-you
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The article author has an agenda: Screens Are Bad.
From the "living room" article:
> At first glance, this family room has everything. Vaulted ceilings. Open floor plan. A fireplace. Warm colors. Even a threshold to the dining room where life continues beyond.
> But stand in that threshold for sixty seconds. Watch where your eyes go.
> They go to the screen. Every time.
> Looking through the lens of Open Enough Design, this isn’t a family room. It’s The Worship Hall. The television has colonized the fireplace and converted every piece of furniture into pews. The room preaches a single sermon: Face forward. The screen is speaking.
As for "They go to the screen. Every time."... After reading this, I had to return to the picture and search for the screen.
Apparently the author is simply triggered by the presence of screens. And I am not.
This is like advocating that "don't paint rooms blue", because blue reminds people of that time you were savagely attacked in middle school in the blue hallway and beaten so badly your mother had to take you to the emergency room, so anyway: don't paint rooms blue.
From the "living room" article:
> At first glance, this family room has everything. Vaulted ceilings. Open floor plan. A fireplace. Warm colors. Even a threshold to the dining room where life continues beyond.
> But stand in that threshold for sixty seconds. Watch where your eyes go.
> They go to the screen. Every time.
> Looking through the lens of Open Enough Design, this isn’t a family room. It’s The Worship Hall. The television has colonized the fireplace and converted every piece of furniture into pews. The room preaches a single sermon: Face forward. The screen is speaking.
As for "They go to the screen. Every time."... After reading this, I had to return to the picture and search for the screen.
Apparently the author is simply triggered by the presence of screens. And I am not.
This is like advocating that "don't paint rooms blue", because blue reminds people of that time you were savagely attacked in middle school in the blue hallway and beaten so badly your mother had to take you to the emergency room, so anyway: don't paint rooms blue.
On a secondary large screen in my basement home office, I run this in fullscreen.
https://oneminutepark.tv/
https://oneminutepark.tv/
That's surprisingly relaxing – thanks for sharing
Stumbled across this second alternative: https://sites.elliott.computer/one-minute-park/
(And the original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323785 )
Stumbled across this second alternative: https://sites.elliott.computer/one-minute-park/
(And the original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323785 )
Another similar one I found during Covid
https://www.window-swap.com/
https://www.window-swap.com/
1) This is so obviously written by an LLM I can’t get past the first paragraph. When will this end?
2) I’m disappointed that this isn’t about a British paranoid schizophrenic.
2) I’m disappointed that this isn’t about a British paranoid schizophrenic.
> This is so obviously written by an LLM I can’t get past the first paragraph. When will this end?
I'm not disagreeing, as you might very well be right, but... why exactly do you think this is written by LLM? I couldn't find any obvious giveaways myself.
I'm not disagreeing, as you might very well be right, but... why exactly do you think this is written by LLM? I couldn't find any obvious giveaways myself.
> You’ve built a space that looks like focus but feels like depletion. And you’ve been blaming yourself for the fatigue. The room is the problem. Not you.
I see this kind of weird pacing and dumb "it's not X, it's Y" stuff ALL the time with slop posts on LinkedIn. Classic LLM tells.
I see this kind of weird pacing and dumb "it's not X, it's Y" stuff ALL the time with slop posts on LinkedIn. Classic LLM tells.
Sadly the OP is a newly registered account which has already submitted 2 stories
Getting the room cozy and psychologically satisfying was a huge deal, and I"m really glad I did it, but the end result is much closer to horse blinders. I have ADHD, so distraction minimization is the name of the game.