This is a good post, props for writing up a practical thing that people can refer to! This is potentially really useful information for people outside the community as well—lots of people struggle with SAD.
Two small changes I’d want to see before I show this to friends outside the community:
Take out the word “rationalist” in the first sentence. This sounds like a small nitpick but I think it’s huge—It’s early and prominent enough that it would likely turn off a casual reader who wasn’t already aware or fond of the community. (And the person being a rationalist isn’t relevant to the advice.) Replace it with “friend”, perhaps.
Add a picture, even just a crappy cell phone photo. How do you get the hooks to hang a cord from the ceiling?
Yeah. I think I’ll leave the current wording for a couple days for weird ingroupy signaling as the article gets it’s initial wave of attention, and then change it afterwards for posterity.
I’ll do a picture in a day or two when I’m less busy.
Ah, okay. It looks like your lumenator is hung from normal hooks on the ceiling. But if you wanted to use command hooks like you describe, you’d have to put it on the wall, correct?
Disclosure: this is actually my neighbor’s lumenator and I hadn’t checked which kind of hooks it uses. But yes, mine are hung from the wall. (The end result looks pretty similar)
This is a good post, props for writing up a practical thing that people can refer to! This is potentially really useful information for people outside the community as well—lots of people struggle with SAD.
Two small changes I’d want to see before I show this to friends outside the community:
Take out the word “rationalist” in the first sentence. This sounds like a small nitpick but I think it’s huge—It’s early and prominent enough that it would likely turn off a casual reader who wasn’t already aware or fond of the community. (And the person being a rationalist isn’t relevant to the advice.) Replace it with “friend”, perhaps.
Add a picture, even just a crappy cell phone photo. How do you get the hooks to hang a cord from the ceiling?
Yeah. I think I’ll leave the current wording for a couple days for weird ingroupy signaling as the article gets it’s initial wave of attention, and then change it afterwards for posterity.
I’ll do a picture in a day or two when I’m less busy.
pssst
lol I should stop promising this sort of thing.
https://i.imgur.com/cPJNVo3.jpg
Ah, okay. It looks like your lumenator is hung from normal hooks on the ceiling. But if you wanted to use command hooks like you describe, you’d have to put it on the wall, correct?
Disclosure: this is actually my neighbor’s lumenator and I hadn’t checked which kind of hooks it uses. But yes, mine are hung from the wall. (The end result looks pretty similar)
Could you check? I’m worried the command ceiling hooks can’t take the weight from the ceiling.
Wow, this is pretty.