Optimizing Workspace for Productivity, Focus, & Creativity
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to when people ask for science-based ways to boost concentration or arrange a home office.
What it is
A Huberman Lab episode on setting up a workspace for productivity, focus and creativity, covering light, posture, movement and sound. It touches on ideas like ceiling height and the effect of screens on the brain.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends kaczordon · 2022-02 · on “Ask HN: Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?”
Dr Huberman from Stanford has a great weekly podcast where he talks about how to improve all parts of your body/mind for various activities(sleep, exercise etc.). Here’s one on improving productivity: [this video] One of the tips from the video that I really love is called the cathedral effect. It was found that having high ceilings increases your creative capacity when doing an activity.
Recommends blueyes · 2022-10 · on “Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation”
Virtual interactions are tied to screens. That's their weak point, because screens affect our vision, how we move and focus our eyes. Our eyes are the only part of our brain exposed to light and air. It turns out that how we move and focus them affects the rest of brain function. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at Stanford, has researched and spoken about this deeply and at length. Here are three podcast episodes where he dives in: [LINK] [LINK] [this video] I think all three points in these comments can be right: 1) we need alone time; 2) sharing physical space can help creativity; 3) virtual meetings can hurt it. But we have to isolate the variables. Shared physical space for creative session
Cites fergonco · 2022-03 · on “White noise improves learning by modulating activity in midbrain regions (2014)”
Andrew Huberman saying in a podcast that it's not the case for verbal recall: [this video] Interesting podcast, btw. got it from HN few days ago.
Cites Kratacoa · 2023-08 · on “Ask HN: How do you organize work and personal computers at your home office?”
I will not reply to the topic as I do not have any interesting bits to share, however Huberman Lab did a whole episode on optimising workspaces. [1][ [this video] ].