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I wonder what the effects on eyesight are of spending years staring at a flat screen/fixed depth of field 🤔 Natural vision is variable depth of field where your focus adjusts constantly as your gaze moves around. Even close-up work like chopping veggies has a 1-3” depth range
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Still iterating on glasses mix that works for my computer eyestrain. Had to return a pair. Now gonna try drugstore readers and maybe mix lenses. Getting computer distance right is more art than science since posture range is high. Mine is ~75-110cm (armchair you desk monitor)
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I think it’s particularly bad because my mild unequal myopia somehow improved in the last couple of years while presbyopia worsened sharply. So middle distance got screwed up. Might get new Zeiss Rx as suggested if this experiment fails.
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Might need to also enforce some hygiene and quit the highest strain posture. Also, nobody told me weaker eyelid muscles creates a secondary kind of eyestrain, besides the primary focal accommodation strain 😫
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Trend of worsening eye issues over the last 2y has definitely affected my writing. It’s also made me aware of the extent to which I’m a single-heavy-lift session guy. It’s natural for me to go 6-8 hours straight, forget to take breaks, etc. Am bad at breaking work into chunks.
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Gonna try and swarm this bottleneck with - computer distance glasses - more breaks - fewer marathon writing sessions of 6-8h - outlining/chunking more - figuring out dictation workflow - blinking more - more high depth of field time (looking at non-flat scenes)
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I also have easily strained vocal chords and lose my voice if I have to talk a lot continuously so dictation is no panacea even if I could get my brain to think orally (spoken word density and semantic precision is really bad so takes a lot of editing and compression)
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At least I have aphantasia going for me. I think lack of mental images makes me able to do more verbal thinking in my head. But then it becomes a memory stress test. Often I’ll come up with entire good paragraphs in my head and forget because I didn’t write it down😆
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