So last spring I did an interview with the website Answer in Progress, which makes explainer videos on various interesting topics, because they said they were doing a video on stenography. Exciting! I thought the interview went really well. But the video never came out. Today I finally got curious about why, and found a <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/153995056">podcast episode on their Patreon</a> about all the videos they wound up canceling in 2025. Stenography is one of them. It starts at 19:00, but the short answer is that the video producer bought a non-ergonomic steno keyboard and wound up getting a repetitive stress injury from trying to learn steno. NOOOO! Let this be a lesson to all steno newbies! Ergonomics are incredibly important. Try to use a tentable machine whenever possible. Use a tripod if you can. Put the machine low enough to keep your shoulders down and your forearms parallel to the ground. And use springs that as light and shallow as you can find. That should help prevent RSIs! I'm really sad to hear about the injury, and secondarily sad that the video won't come out. Ah, well.
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