![]() The main piece of my workstation is an ultrawide Philips monitor with three different input ports: USB-C, DisplayPort, and HDMI. Plenty of indirect natural light, fresh air, and silence are the things that I appreciate the most in a working space. ![]() The picture was taken at 5:30 PM on a winter day, so there’s little natural light, but the room is facing south-east, so it’s usually quite bright. This is where I work all day as a technical writer. Sometimes I wish I could be that frugal, but my back and hands say otherwise. I’m an ergonomics geek and I love customizing my work environment to suit my needs, though I know (very few) folks who can be equally productive sitting hunched over a 13" laptop under hard fluorescent light for hours. What follows is a description of my current home office configuration. ![]() This extends to software and operating systems configuration: using bad editors or applications with default configurations can harm efficiency. Plus, the construction quality, reliability, and level of focus old hardware could afford are still unmatched today – that’s why people try to recreate that feeling through focus modes and nostalgic apps.Īfter more than 15 years working in tech, I’ve grown to appreciate many of the ergonomic practices followed by software engineers and designers, most of which can be applied to technical writers and other knowledge workers after all, we work using almost the same hardware. ![]() That’s true, as it’s true that manuals were written at a much slower pace in environments where “agile” meant “dancing”. “But Fabri, tech writers used to write the docs using tiny phosphor monitors and old mechanical keyboards”. While it’s true that communicating with subject-matter experts and writing documentation can be done on a tiny Chromebook, I would compare such an experience to driving all the way from Chicago to San Francisco on a BMW Isetta: feasible, though not very comfortable nor fast, and certainly not fun for your derrière. Technical writing requires appropriate gear to be done in a way that’s both healthy and productive. ![]()
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