On a stage, with an orchestra. (I'm a professional singer.)
That would be even more awesome if you were programming.
Poll: Where do you work (physically)?
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get a giant white board. Its an excellent semi-temporary brainstorming & task-tracking tool.
If you get a whiteboard, I would suggest putting it far enough away from your desk that you need to stand up (or roll over to it) in order to use it. I've found that kind of physical separation very helpful in creating a mental separation between "designing mode" and "implementing mode."
Good suggestion. I used to do something similar when I had a rolling white board. I be sure to keep it away from my desk as I was planning/designing and would then wheel it back over to my work area when it was implementation time and/or I needed reminders.
Though, I typically solve my most complex problems by leaving the computer and talking a walk around the block. That doesn't work out so well in these cold South Carolina winters, though. I need to get back out to CA.
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#53Believe it or not I do much of my work walking along the street. When I'm doing office hours at YC (and the weather's good and we don't need to look at screens) I usually suggest going for a walk.
Very smart strategy, considering this:
Just today I've heard a theory, that when you walk around brain is more able to try new ways of thinking and solving problems, because the 'motion center' in the brain is doing what it's supposed to do: handling one's movements. On the contrary when we are not moving, this center can often overwhelm the thought process with already established habits, which makes trying new things harder.
I thing it works - even in offices many people start walking in circles when they have an important decision to make.
Funny, in my language the word meaning 'reflexively', 'instinctively' is in a form which can be literally translated 'out of the movement', which quite fits this theory.
I didn't look for the scientific background, but I know from the context of how I've heard this, that it was taught at the univ on a psychology specialization.
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#54A home office. A large room over the garage, that looks into the bowl of Diamond Head from 1100' up on the hill. Expansive ocean views... kinda distracting.
As a frequent visitor to the islands (my dad lives there), how do you keep from going completely stir-crazy? I've thought about moving out there and then flying to SF occasionally for networking and stuff but I just think I would go nuts.
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#55I have a complete, insulated, properly built outdoor office at the end of my garden. It was built because I had to give up my indoor office due to my daughter being born.
End result? I now work in a tiny corner of the living room because I like being in the house and not walking up and down the garden in the cold. Oops.
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#56The Rose main reading room of the NYPL Schwarzman building (that's the one with the lions) is quiet, has wifi and outlets, and is inspirational.
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/general-research-di...
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#57a lab at a university
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#58I go to the office every day but I do about 50% of my work from home.
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#59I work from home and hate it. I know that working from the comfort of your home is supposed to be the holy grail of workspaces but the thing I miss the most about working in an office is working in an office and being able to come home and have a space where my mind can unwind from my responsibilities and actually do the sort of relaxing that gives me good ideas
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#60Believe it or not I do much of my work walking along the street. When I'm doing office hours at YC (and the weather's good and we don't need to look at screens) I usually suggest going for a walk.
You need to get your ass back in that office and code.
Edit: Just realized I replied to pg. Well, get your ass back into that office and implement some of those great ideas then.