It’s felt more like I was playing a simulator game of myself coding, and it was not enjoyable at all.
I often wonder how people who actually work at fast paced places as engineers are claiming to be more productive with this strapped on.
If I just ingested and read email and slack messages all day, or talked in zoom all day, sure (maybe), but I don’t.
1. Having more screen real estate in my small home office. I often dive into spaghetti code, and seeing more of it helps me maintain context.
2. Working in my RV. I can’t take my extra screens with me (it’s a multi-use family RV, so I’m not mounting anything. Plus, there isn’t room.), and I’m so, so excited about having more screen real estate in there. We lived/worked in it for 3 months last summer, and it was really nice coming home to more screens at the end of the trip.
Very curious to see how tolerable the UX is in an environment that's almost always experiencing some degree of motion independent of the user.
It’s amazing to me what people will do to avoid being present in the moment. You’re on a sailboat, enjoy it, smell the ocean, feel the water on your face, breathe deeply and take it all in. If you’re just going to strap goggles on your face to blind you to the beauty around you, then why did you even get a sailboat to begin with?
Besides the ocean and elements, there's also a certain beauty in using the latest technology to operate a SAAS company from almost anywhere on the planet.
When I’m on PTO, my laptop doesn’t go with me. I absolutely use all my PTO every year.
I expect our radius to get smaller as our child gets older and goes to school, but we are very passionate about being outdoors as much as possible.
For example - I helped build a mutually accessible structure in a national forest, and my favorite work days are out there. We installed solar last summer, so it’s workable year round now.