Marcus, restarting (again)

This is exactly my cycle. Lose a day, panic, do everything on the recovery day, pay for it on Thursday.

It also means they can say yes without a meeting. Half of this is reducing the effort of agreeing.

Ask for specific, cheap, testable things and offer to trial them. Vague requests get referred to a committee, specific ones get bought.

Things that were approved for me or for people I know:

• De-lamping or fitting diffuser panels on the two fixtures directly above my desk. Facilities can often do this the same week for almost nothing.
• A desk move out of the direct line of the window, or a blind on that window.
• A flicker free monitor, and permission to run it below the standard brightness the estate build sets.
• Two afternoons a week at home, framed as the last resort mitigation rather than the opening ask.
• A desk lamp with a warm bulb so the overheads above me can stay off.

The wording that worked: name the symptom, name the trigger, name the specific adjustment, say what it lets you do. 'Overhead fluorescent lighting is a trigger; de-lamping the two fixtures above desk 14, or moving me to desk 22, would let me work a full afternoon without needing to leave.' That is a sentence somebody can action.

It is definitely worse damp and quieter after ten minutes of riding, so probably bedding.

Add dehydration to the suspect list. Weekday routine usually includes a water bottle on a desk. Weekend mornings often include nothing at all until lunch.

Practical work one: I have a saved message template that says I am unwell and will follow up tomorrow. Writing that message during an aura used to take me ten minutes and now it takes five seconds.

Is the ten new to a hundred reviews ratio reliable or is that just your deck?

Does one dot carry enough information to be useful later?

Every day rather than bad days only. That is exactly what I have been doing wrong.