alt Hacker NewsYou 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.
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This 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.
Exactly 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.
My productivity is generally measured in how much time I sit on the porcelain thinking throne first.
I've found something similar. I can measure my stress by how many coffee mugs are on my desk.
It 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...
This was me, and now I have horrific back pain almost every week. Fix what's broken before it breaks you.
My neck is screaming in empathetic pain for your future neck!
That’s funny, but this is about physical health not productivity. I’m guessing you are relatively young. Desk jobs are tough on the body!
Let's not forget the people who work from bed with AR glasses and a projector pointed at the ceiling.
Gamer lean is when it gets really serious.
Sounds like you're literally the target audience for this app.
this is the way
Funny, 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…