[SystemSafety] On off periods

[Olwen Morgan]

Thats stacks up with my experience. Like most people with some degree of 
autism, I'm an extremely bad multi-tasker and no multi-tasker at all 
when SAD sets in.

Lights help to keep up mood and concentration but spillover light can be 
a problem in open-plan offices. Fortunately, I think I now have a 
solution to that. Today I received, from Oz via DHL, a pair of SAD 
lights built into something that looks like a pair of glasses. It cost 
UKP 119 on Amazon and it's currently charging up on one of my USB ports. 
By having green-dominant (circa 550nm wavelength) light projected to the 
eyes from LEDs in the frame, this device can provide the hour of 10,000 
Lux daylight-equivalent light without annoying other people. I'll let 
the group know how I get on with it.


Olwen



On 17/09/18 16:15, Grazebrook, Alvery AN wrote:
>
> This is a slightly oblique answer. I encountered SAD in a programmer, 
> who I used to work with at one of my previous employers. The company 
> arranged for him to have daylight lights above his desk, and was 
> careful to manage the type of work he was given in Jan / Feb time of 
> year. I don’t remember an atypical bug rate, but I do remember that he 
> preferred long single tasks over winter, rather than bug-fix bonanzas 
> or other very fragmented work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alvery
>
> *From:*systemsafety 
> [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] *On 
> Behalf Of *Olwen Morgan
> *Sent:* 17 September 2018 2:06 PM
> *To:* clayton at veriloud.com
> *Cc:* systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
> *Subject:* Re: [SystemSafety] On off periods
>
>
> Not a banal answer at all. Actually the question first came up when I 
> was talking about my down periods with a friend who also gets SAD. She 
> said that if, say, airline pilots have to have regular medicals, then 
> given the reliance of airliners on software, would it not make some 
> sense to check whether the people writing it are under par for 
> whatever reason.
>
> I just tossed the question in to see what people's reactions might be.
>
> Actually, I realise that I slightly misstated myself in the original 
> posting. It's not an invariable rule. I might be prepared to start 
> work in March if the winter hasn't been too bad. Also, it's mainly 
> programming and modelling that it affects and not other lifecycle 
> tasks that require (for me at least) less intense concentration.
>
>
> regards,
> Olwen
>
> On 16/09/18 22:51, clayton at veriloud.com <mailto:clayton at veriloud.com> 
> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Sep 16, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Olwen Morgan
>     <olwen.morgan at btinternet.com <mailto:olwen.morgan at btinternet.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>     I'm wondering if, in some circumstances, engineers working on
>     critical systems ought to have regular medicals for mental health
>     issues.
>
>     Another “banal answer" I fear (to what I think are great comments
>     and questions), but: this is why, formal code inspections
>     (rigorous peer review), and why your comments on testability
>     (complexity) in the other thread (which also includes the benefit
>     of ‘understandability) is vital! No other form of analysis
>     substitutes (when dealing with humans that is…).
>
>     Clayton Weimer
>
>     https://www.linkedin.com/in/weimer/
>
> -- 
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