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Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by Asooka »

Ductapemaster wrote: post #20

One really positive thing I have found for myself in the WFH life is that I am taking MUCH better care of myself. So far I have lost weight, started a bodyweight workout routine, which I do in between meetings/calls/other work, and have gained back 2 hours of my day by not taking transit into the city. That's 2 more hours every day that I get to relax, work on a personal project, hang out with my SO, or even crush ou…

Same. I feel the positive effects are actually making me more productive, not less. I do end up writing code at midnight some days, but having a floating schedule fits me so much better. Meeting face to face for some things is nice, but it's not worth all the downsides. I honestly dread when I'll be forced back in the office - even though this has shown we can work from home for extended periods, I don't see my company allowing us to do so after they don't have to.

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by katbyte »

PopeDotNinja wrote: post #87
xyse53 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my mottos: Good eating starts in the supermarket, not in the kitchen. I can easily not buy potato chips. I don't even pretend like I'll control myself and not eat a whole bag in one night if it's in the house.

Do you have a second motto that helps me not stress eat all the good food I just bought?

Eat it all you want? I can eat cherry tomatoes all day long and I doubt that’s awful for me

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by danielscrubs »

scns wrote: post #124
saiya-jin wrote: post #117

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This so much. If you were active outdoorsy person with pretty cool active life, WFH and all related can be a bit of a disaster. We can still go out, but doing anything with real risks is supremely selfish now. As in Europe, we can't travel in other countries. Being in place surrounded with beautiful France and having Italy within 1 hour drive, this severely restricts where we can go. Also, I've been previously hittin…

You could switch to bodyweight exercises and work towards onearm pushups/pullups and pistols if you want a challenge

The hard part about training is not the training itself, but finding something you enjoy enough that you don't need any grit to do it.

There is a reason 73.9% of the North American-population is overweight [1], and it's not because they are not knowledgable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by l_davis »

jokoon wrote: post #121

You need a home office, a separate room in your home. It's too easy to get distracted otherwise. Simple as that.

Some of us don't have the space for a separate home office. That being said, I WFHed part time before the pandemic, so the new part for me is being home 100 percent of the time. My workspace is a table in my (multipurpose) living room. I've made a small tweak or two since the pandemic but it is basically the same as before. My work and personal habits are better since the pandemic started. Several reasons. Part is that it is springtime, and I am much less of a couch potato naturally then. And the other part is that I have been taking the risks of getting sick and the associated issues like the economic problems seriously and making conscious efforts to take care of my health, reorganize my home, take steps towards bolstering my economic security, etc. I think that small distractions are OK (it's actually unhealthy to stay in your chair for too long) as long as they are kept under control.

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by katbyte »

godelski wrote: post #130
laumars wrote: post #62

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> Anything needing special equipment or terrain, for example. If you want to do a climbing workout you're going out of luck without a rockface in your back garden or your own climbing wall, aren't you. In theory you’d be right but I the reason I asked is because there’s usually workouts you can still do at home to keep at least some of those muscles in shape even if you can’t do your usual training routines without u…

> Take the rock climbing example As a climber who currently does finger pull ups on my door frame, there is so much I can't do. A lot of climbing is body position and control of your center of mass. You can't practice proper technique for climbing without a wall. There's just also things you can't do without the height. As an avid sport climber, I would usually end my days climbing doing lead laps. This helps make cl…

I’d not worry about it too much, I’ve gone maybe 9 months without climbing or doing anything but snowboarding and 2nd day out of the season done a 17 pitch 700m trad 5.9 multi. it comes back real fast, and the technique sticks long after the strength is gone.

Can’t wait to get back on rock Thursday out official “opening” date. planning on doing a 5.8 5 pitch multi right off the bat after 8 months off

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by radicalbyte »

thomk wrote: post #10
radicalbyte wrote: post #4

If you have a baby and two young children around who you also have to homeschool for 8 hours a day then you're not going to be "productive" working at home. People who slack at work by hide it by having lots of meetings / playing politics are useless whilst working-from home because they don't know how operate when their productivity is more visible.

Our solution is that I go to bed at 8pm and get up at 4am and work like mad until breakfast which is around 9am. Thats 5h of uninterrupted coding time, which is about the max my old brain can handle anyway. The hard part is doing 'working hours' business, but hey, I just email everyone from the potty. Sorry, ahem, bathroom.

We did the same and it has been a war of attrition.

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by echelon »

I'm finding WFH incredibly distracting for an odd reason: my home office is where I work on my side hustle.

Having to share my innovation space with work work is jarring, and I'm having a lot of difficulty disentangling the two. I now spent a lot of my work day thinking about my startup since I'm in the place where I used to do that in isolation. Ultimately I'm now a lot less productive at both. It's driving my focus and energy down.

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by OJFord »

dllthomas wrote: post #99
Xcelerate wrote: post #57

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> I've started taking so much junk snacks (which wasn't available at Office) What I've found helps is to not buy snacks. I eat junk if it's available, but if nothing is nearby, then I can't be bothered to go out and purchase it, so I'll eat a grapefruit instead. Another thing that I have found helps is to order a community supported agriculture (CSA) produce box. A lot of farmers that supply restaurants are losing a…

Another nice aspect of a CSA is the push to eat seasonally. I'm not sure it really matters, but I find it aesthetically appealing. Of course, the downside is that I now have to figure out what to do with fennel for the 6th week in a row...

Bit late now (in the UK at least) if you want it all in season, but I like it in a pie with sweet potato and leek, and just a bechemel sauce, optionally thickened with egg or cheese.

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by dlkf »

The discussion so far is largely unproductive, because it is conflating "WFH life" and "we're in the midst of a global pandemic and we can't do our favourite activities." Personally I'm hating my current situation, but if I could go to a concert or plan a vacation, WFH might be awesome. I really have no idea.

Re: Why are some people better at working from home than others?

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Post by greggman3 »

Ductapemaster wrote: post #20

One really positive thing I have found for myself in the WFH life is that I am taking MUCH better care of myself. So far I have lost weight, started a bodyweight workout routine, which I do in between meetings/calls/other work, and have gained back 2 hours of my day by not taking transit into the city. That's 2 more hours every day that I get to relax, work on a personal project, hang out with my SO, or even crush ou…

Opposite for me. I gained weight because I no longer walk to work (walk to station, take subway, walk from office). And, I'm only a few feet from my kitchen so can eat.

I have no S.O. so much lonelier not having co-workers to talk to, eat lunch with, etc...

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