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You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am. Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture? I’m doing nothing, maybe looking through S
by avalys 9mo ago
You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am.
Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture? I’m doing nothing, maybe looking through System Preferences to change the system highlight color.
Sliding down in my chair like jelly, with my shoulders where my butt should be and my head resting on the lumbar support? I’m building the next iPhone and it’ll be done by 2 AM.
- digitaltinfoil 9mo agothis is the way
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- collingreen 9mo agoThis is how things get built for me as well. I have a standing desk and like using it occasionally but if you see me standing at it you can bet I'm doing something typical like emails or chat and not thinking deeply.
- dgxyz 9mo agoMy productivity is generally measured in how much time I sit on the porcelain thinking throne first.
- jacobkranz 9mo agoTruer words have never been spoken. That and planning out your day & thinking through problems in the shower.
- codyb 9mo agoIf you delete social media, and leave your phone away from your person all day with notifications turned off, you can have these moments all the time it turns out. Considering how much more productive these moments are for me than the bullshit I used to do on my phone and social media, it was an easy decision to make.
- saagarjha 9mo agoHow do you simulate the warm water?
- codyb 9mo agoWith a faucet my good friend!
- codyb 9mo agoOh, lol, now I get your question. Yea, it turns out the silence and lack of distractions are what produce "shower thoughts", more so than the act of showering itself. Doing any relatively rote act like washing dishes, walking places, etc can also give rise to them. Not having a device in your hand to constantly steal your attention really helps though.
- lanstin 9mo agoI find pacing to be helpful. As long as there’s not a lot of poles to walk into accidentally. So while outside walks can be more focused you do get the odd head bang.
- pfannkuchen 9mo agoShowers are generally considered to be relaxing separately from the “shower thoughts” phenomenon. Couldn’t the relaxation be a factor in generating shower thoughts? I suspect that essentially none of our non-ancestors were predated in a hot spring, unlike walking etc, so there may be an environmental cue driven induced relaxation that doesn’t exist for many other activities.
- codyb 9mo agoYea, you relax, and then your brain produces random thoughts about things. I suspect it's just about getting the space to relax, which is why I frequently have thoughts when staring at the wall, or taking a walk, or washing dishes, or doing any other myriad activities which are relatively easy on brain processing.
- jjp 9mo agoWalking the dog is my go to for thinking through problems. The dog really loves the hard problems as they get a longer walk.
- rr808 9mo agoI never understood this. Is this why the cubicles are always full in the office? WTF I go in there take a dump and leave while the people on each side are just silent the whole time. I can think of much better places to think.
- sieabahlpark 9mo ago[dead]
- coldtrait 8mo agoThese days I'm just doomscrolling while doing that
- chongli 9mo agoMy neck is screaming in empathetic pain for your future neck!
- TheRealPomax 9mo agoSounds like you're literally the target audience for this app.
- amelius 9mo agoNot if there is a hard positive correlation between productivity and slouching, like they say.
- marginalia_nu 9mo agoGamer lean is when it gets really serious.
- jaccola 9mo agoFunny, I’m the same. I also like taking walks to think but I’ve found that I must have my head pointing almost directly down (I.e. looking at my feet). It’s also how I stand thinking in the shower, with the warm water hitting my angled neck. Maybe something beneficial about that position of the neck, or maybe just habit! I will also have conversations in my head during my walk, I’ve done this my whole life and I’m not sure to this day whether my lips move during these or not. In any case, I must get some funny looks with head bolted to the ground mumbling to myself…
- j45 9mo agoWear earbuds like you’re on call or recording something
- soulofmischief 9mo agoI've fully embraced looking insane in public. Try it some time; you won't go back.
- j45 9mo agohaha, sounds good.
- wowzaa 9mo agoIn my case, though walks help declutter my mind somewhat, for deeper thoughts, I have to write it down sitting or laying in the bed in the worst of positions. Thinking too deeply while walking only leaves me anxious in the end as I tend to get sidetracked a lot in conversation and always have to restart the conversation over and over again.
- visarga 8mo agoI used paper a lot to jot my ideas and all sorts of diagrams but lately I just pull Claude and chat it out, it works like a thinking environment.
- sublinear 9mo agoLet's not forget the people who work from bed with AR glasses and a projector pointed at the ceiling.
- simsla 9mo agoThis was me, and now I have horrific back pain almost every week. Fix what's broken before it breaks you.
- globile 9mo agoIt would be much more interesting that the system blur when it finds we drift from being "in the zone". "I'm going to quickly shift from my terminal to this chrome tab to check this documentation but while it loads I'll get a dopamine hit from X." Blur the screen and help me get back on track...
- quinnjh 9mo agoit will be interesting to see as these tools emerge to what extent the undercontrolled behavior is a piece of a larger cycle of attention and context mgmt, or if all of that time can be nudged back into the zone
- bahmboo 9mo agoThat’s funny, but this is about physical health not productivity. I’m guessing you are relatively young. Desk jobs are tough on the body!
- brikym 9mo agoI've found something similar. I can measure my stress by how many coffee mugs are on my desk.
- paulmooreparks 9mo agoExactly what I came here to say. I've been programming for 40 years, 35 professionally, and I didn't find my ergonomic, no-pain, no-RSI happy place until I stopped following advice to sit up straight. I set my chair with just enough resistance, set the head rest where it puts my eyeline directly on my monitors, which are set considerably higher than average and about a metre from my head. I can work for hours like this now, with no pain. I could never use an app like this. Maybe I should write one that blurs the screen when I don't slouch.
- CTDOCodebases 8mo agoGet a lazy boy, fit a split keyboard to each arm and develop AGI then. I’m sick of these RAM prices.
- keyle 8mo agoThis is both funny and so true. I'm most productive when I'm about to fall out of the chair and I don't even care that my elbow is hanging off.
- crazysim 8mo agoIt is OSS, I guess you could invert it.
- bartread 8mo agoThis is interesting, because in many ways I’m almost the exact opposite. If I’m slouched in my chair, then I’m either completely disengaged or doing something mundane like dealing with email. If I’m upright or sat forward then I’m engaged and executing, but maybe not thinking deeply - I’m doing something I’ve already thought about and decided on. And if I’m on my feet and moving around, often doing some mundane chore like emptying the dishwasher, then I’m likely thinking. It’s actually a really good illustration of why one size fits all solutions when it comes to work environment and conditions are often so unsatisfactory.
- dandellion 8mo agoI'm like you at 9 a.m. and like grand parent by 9 p.m.
- simjnd 8mo agoIt's not about productivity, it's about good posture
- eichin 8mo agoIn a previous tech bubble I figured out that the Aeron chairs were great - if you were using good posture. Slouch at all and they'd hurt you. The humanscale chair was the one that was actually good for feet-on-desk, keyboard-in-lap, staring out the window while rotating data structures in my head...