[shoo]

some of my most productive times have been away from the computer -- thinking very hard how to do things. perhaps walking around the block, or staring at the wall, or standing in front of a whiteboard.

personally, i used to have a pretty nice setup with one screen and a tiling window manager. with one screen you don't have to move your head at all, just use the keyboard to flicker between desktops. perhaps this works better with plain terminals / terminal editors, where you don't lose any screen real estate (in comparison, using e.g. visual studio is pretty nice, but on a small monitor it is sort of like looking at a text file through a porthole)