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Sitting all day, done properly
Setup, breaks, eyes, breathing and focus. Specific enough to act on today, and honest about where the evidence is thin.
The 90-degree rule is wrong
Knees at 90, hips at 90, elbows at 90. It is the most repeated desk advice there is, and it quietly misses the two things that actually decide how your neck and back feel at 5pm.
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An expensive chair will not fix your back
Chair trials keep coming back with small or no effects on pain, which is awkward for a market built on the opposite claim. Two things about a chair do matter, and neither is the price.
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A standing desk will not fix your back
The trials are in, and standing all day mostly swaps one set of aches for another. The desk is still worth having, but not for the reason it was sold to you.
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A laptop cannot be ergonomic, and that is by design
The screen and the keyboard are bolted together, so one of them is always in the wrong place. Everything worth doing about it follows from admitting that.
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Arm's length is not a rule, it is a coincidence
How far your screen should sit depends on its size and how small your text is, and the number people quote comes from an era of much smaller monitors.
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