[00:26:20] Our main piece: health and posture and wellness, both digital and otherwise. Most of us in the technology community probably need to do better at sitting up straight, positioning monitors correctly, standing up, exercising more, and so on. We've been taking a look at some of the tools to help accomplish this, from standing desks and posture monitors to education and putting your screen on a pile of books. This also dovetails with the drive towards digital wellness: after the big initiative a couple of years ago to have OS vendors build tools into their systems to help us switch off, did it work? What do the tools do? And is anybody using them?
Posture was not part of my education either, but I’ve been trying to keep mine in check.
Stuart mentioned his Ikea Markus chair in the episode. I am using the “successor” (Markus is still sold) named the Järvfjället, which has a really nice general posture line. If you keep your neck against the neck rest you’re probably 50% of the way there already.
I’m not a heavy Twitter user and have mostly only been using it for anything like a “conversation” in the last few months, so mine looks almost reasonable (though I do have three “Books”) if it’s an AI categorizing keywords from everything the user has (ahem) “engaged with.”
So, I’d bet on “Egg” (which I don’t have) probably coming from something like clicking “Like” on a tweet where someone mentions that you can identify Troll Farm produce by the default egg avatar and a user ID in certain formats.
Desk-wise, i’m short enough that I can generally get away without an actual standing desk, but back before I used to stand regularly, I swore by those kneeling chairs. They seem to cost about a hundred bucks now (on Amazon), but I seem to recall the model got back around 2000 costing little enough that I had no qualms about leaving one at my office desk.
And if anybody is hooked on those screen-reddening applications (f.lux, Redshift, and so forth) and have realized that your television, light bulbs, street lights, and other light sources don’t actually have that capability, and if you don’t mind looking like an extra from some science-fiction student film, red or yellow laser safety goggles are cheap and work well enough.
