✦Remote work · 11 recordsSet up working from home

Working from home fails on ergonomics and on boundaries, in that order of expense. This fixes the desk properly once, then builds the start and stop rituals that stop the day expanding to fill the house.

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Goal

A setup I could work in for years Week 6

The desk fixed properly once, and a day with an end.

Fix the space Week 3

Chair, screen height, light. In that order of consequence.

  • Get the screen to eye height and the chair rightDo firstDay 7
  • Sort the light so it is not behind the screenDay 12
  • Make the setup packable if it shares a roomWeek 3

Give the day edges Week 6

There is no commute, so the boundary has to be built.

  • Decide the start and stop times, and tell peopleDo firstWeek 3
  • Build a stop ritual and do it for a weekWeek 5

Routines

  • Walk before startingdaily
  • Stop at the time I saiddaily
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Ergonomics now, boundaries forever

Chair, screen height and light cause injuries over months rather than days, and they are far cheaper to fix now than to treat later.\n\nWithout a commute the day has no natural end, so it expands to fill the house. The stop ritual is the replacement, and it has to be a routine rather than an intention.

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Chair, screen height and light, in that order. They are the things that quietly cause injuries over months rather than days, and they are much cheaper to fix now than to treat later.
A stop ritual — a walk, closing the laptop somewhere out of sight, a written note of tomorrow's first task. Without the commute there is no natural boundary, so it has to be built, and this plan makes it a routine.
No, but you do need the work to be packable. A corner that gets cleared at the end of the day works better than a dedicated room you never leave, and the difference is whether the day has an end.
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