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+Relying on my ears to keep my posture
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+:date: 2020-03-25T05:48Z
+:category: blog
+:tags: physical-health
+:url: blog/relying-on-my-ears-to-keep-my-posture/
+:save_as: blog/relying-on-my-ears-to-keep-my-posture/index.html
+:status: published
+:author: Gergely Polonkai
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+**TL;DR**: my ears helped me create an almost perfect pomodoro timer out of my own body.
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+There’s an ongoing pandemic for a few weeks now, so whoever can should and does stay at home.
+Luckily we can do it at Benchmark.games, as we only used our office to stay in physical contact
+with each other because we are (somewhat) social creatures.  But now we try to take care of each
+other and even the bravest work from home now.  I hope the last one who left the office turned off
+the heating and the lights.
+
+I’m also lucky because i have both a supporting family and a separate room in our house which we
+didn’t really use until today.  It’s so separate that its door opens to our front yard, not inside
+the house.  There is/was a lot of junk there, waiting to be sorted or to be thrown out, so i took
+a day off and tidied it up a bit so i could put a table and a chair inside.  I also did some
+cabling work and now it has Internet connection, too.  It’s not overly comfy, but it will do for
+the few weeks/months this pandemic will (hopefully) take.  I also found a lot of treasures i won’t
+list here, except a set of 5.1 speakers.
+
+After setting up my workstation i put the speakers around me.  They are not ideally far from me
+(the room is not big enough for that) but it will suffice.  The front centre speaker is above my
+head so the speakers and my head form an almost perfect tetrahedron.  The back speakers are also
+at the same distance behind me.  I have a bad habit of leaning closer to the screen when i overly
+focus on something, and with this setup i just realised that whenever i do it i get outside of the
+centre zone of the speakers and music doesn’t *sound* right.  This way i instantly stop leaning
+closer to the screen and fix my posture.  Also, since the front centre speaker is above me, if my
+back starts to get tired and i start to stoop, my head gets lower, and once again the music
+doesn’t sound right.  I try to take mental notes whenever this happens and i realised that after
+an hour it happens more often, signalling that i should take a break.
+
+During my breaks i drink some water, visit the toilet, do some exercises, have launch, or whatever
+fits me, but most importantly, i try not to think of my current work task (unless i was in the
+middle of focused work, which is rare after around an hour).  This helps me clear my mind so in
+the next hour i can focus better on my next task.