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The point isn’t that you should be looking downward, it is that you shouldn’t be looking upward. It creates eye and neck strain.


For me, constantly looking downward causes neck strain.

Hence the top of the monitor being at eye level, is problematic. I think the best scenario is most-often level.

I wonder, I grew up before laptops and smartphones. These often result is down-gazing a lot. Hmm.




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