David Tate: How to work from home without going insane →
When you work at a location of your choice you can control what distracts you. If you want to work for 4 hours and not use the bathroom you can do it; if you want to work with 2 lbs of nachos taped to your face like a beard while wearing a sombrero filled with nacho cheese for snacking you can do this. Most people think they will be far more productive due to being able to control large blocks of time, but I found that the experience was quite jarring.
Having come very close to going insane these last few months, this is all painfully on target. (I don’t have kids, although the young child in the adjacent apartment is helpfully trying to give me just a little taste of it by screaming incessantly.)
