Sublime

The Corrective Lens

John Stilgoe, a professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the author of several books, including Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places. Stilgoe believes the power of acute observation is one of nature’s most useful learning tools.

The gold standard—and what I use—is a type of patented glasses with a lens filter that blocks every single one of the light frequencies documented to impact sleep rhythms. The glasses are called TrueDark™ and are from biohacked.com,

Exposing my skin to ultraviolet B light made a difference in how I felt, but what made the biggest impact in midwinter was actually removing the eye shields for one minute out of the ten and exposing my eyes to a small amount of UVB light from the low-pressure bulbs in the lamp

surgery. You’ll want to consider the objective aspects of healing—the evidence-based science, statistics, and measurable elements of optimal recovery. But you won’t want to neglect the impossible-to-measure but equally important subjective aspects—such as the consciousness of your health-care providers; the impact of your consciousness on the repai