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Your room can be as bright as the outdoors | benkuhn.net

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focusing after dark • corn cob bulbs • before + after photos • saving ½–2h/day • my setup • why don’t more people do this?! • FAQs

This is my first winter in Boston after coming back from Senegal. The sun sets at around 4:15 now, and it's suddenly become extremely salient how hard it is for me to focus after dark. I'd vaguely noticed this in the past, and dealt with it by shifting my sleep schedule earlier (or just being unproductive). But I'm waking up around 6:30 now and I already struggle to stay up for evening events. So finally, inspired by some blog posts , I decided to give up on chasing natural sunlight and make my own instead. I bought an extremely bright "corn cob" style bulb. It emits as much light as about 40

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