Like many nerds, I bring out a stupid-bright LED array in winter. As lit suggests, I put it right by my head, just above my field of view, for ~30m. It's unpleasant, so I'd only used it when days are short and I'm obviously low-energy. That was dumb! (con't)
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Instead of using the LED array right by my head for brief durations, this month I've put it on a shelf and left it on *all day* to make the whole room feel like the outdoors, as suggested in benkuhn.net/lux/ (via ). I feel so much more energetic with it on!
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Much of the discussion around this stuff feels awfully hand-wave-y, so I won't try to make any kind of serious scientific case. But I've been super surprised how much it's helped me, even in the long summer months, and I feel silly for not thinking to try this sooner.
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This seemed like a silly thing to do bc my desk is bathed in natural light from windows—why use an LED to simulate outside light when I can use the sun? But in reality the windows are behind my desk; the blinds have to stay shut to let me see my screen! So the room's always dim.
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(I'll add because it wasn't obvious to me, even though it probably should have been): By putting the stupid-bright LED at roughly 4 or 8 o'clock (to my side and slightly behind), I can make the room very bright without generating any glare on the screen.
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Another observation that should have clued me in: when I'm doing pen-and-paper work with my sketchbook, I can of course open all the blinds. And I usually feel really energetic! I'd thought it was about the change in working modality, but it's probably also the lighting.
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I had a 10k lumen directional for the winter, and I felt it wasn't quite enough when I moved it away to light the whole room, so I got a 30k lumen corncob.
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The thing I built with works so well at delivering high melanopic lux without feeling unpleasant, as soon as I tried it and noticed it didn't feel painfully bright, I impulse gave everyone a ~35% refund and dropped the price.
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Intriguing product if you'd consider spending $1,700 on a SAD light. There's reasons in theory to believe regular white LEDs have the wrong blue-light wavelength, and 480nm sky blue may be better. First commercially available implementation, afaik.
getchroma.co/products/sky-p
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Just bought one - really looking forward to testing this out.
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Got this super corn cob light from Amazon, it blasts the room with brightness, really helps energy levels
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