"But today the situation is also different from the early 1970s. Over the past half-century we have proven that telework works; even in desperate situations like those produced by Covid"
Jack Nilles first coined the concept of teleworking back in 1973, I bet he's having some kind of déjà vu at the moment while the rest of us continue to fuck around 😜
More info 👉🏻 https://jacknilles.substack.com/p/telework-20-hormuz-and-rethinking
My current temporary home - and, necessarily, office - is directly next door to some kind of "horse gym": a contraption a little like a huge revolving door to encourage one or more horses to exercise by walking around it.
Every now and then my peripheral vision registers that there's a horse outside the window and, for the dozenth time, I look up from my work and glance around to barely catch it vanishing off on yet another lap.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/09/horse-gym/
#note #animals #exercise #flood-2026 #horses #teleworking #vision
My current temporary home - and, necessarily, office - is directly next door to some kind of "horse gym": a contraption a little like a huge revolving door to encourage one or more horses to exercise by walking around it. Every now and then my peripheral vision registers that there's a horse outside the window and, for the dozenth time, I look up from my work and glance around to barely catch it vanishing off on yet another lap.
Teleworking: https://www.aurianneor.org/working-from-home/
#affluence #art #aurianneor #betterliving #businesses #change #communication #cost #crowds #digitization #discrimination #easy #ecology #environment #equalopportunities #equality #flexibleworkinghours #infrastructure #isolation #objectives #office #Photomontage #politics #pollution #possible #qualityoflife #recruitment #Remotework #remoteworking #skills #society #studies #talent #teleworking #work #Workingfromhome
Just a mini-blep this Twenty-Sixth of Bleptember, from a certain attention-seeking doggo who insisted on a cuddle from me while I sat in a Zoom meeting.
Off to my first day at Firstup. Gotta have an induction: get my ID badge, learn where the toilets are, how to refill the coffee machine, and all that jazz.
Except, of course, none of those steps will be part of my induction. Because, yet again, I've taken a remote-first position. I'm 100% sold that, for me, remote/distributed work helps me bring my most-productive self. It might not be for everybody, but it's great for me.
And now: I'm going to find out where the water cooler is. No, wait... some other thing!
#note #firstup #work #job #employment #telecommuting #teleworking
Off to my first day at <a href="https://firstup.io/">Firstup</a>. Gotta have an induction: get my ID badge, learn where the toilets are, how to refill the coffee machine, and all that jazz. Except, of course, none of those steps will be part of my induction. Because, yet again, I've taken a remote-first position. I'm 100% sold that, for me, remote/distributed work helps me bring my most-productive self. It might not be for everybody, but it's great for me. And now: I'm going to find out where the water cooler is. No, wait... some other thing!
I decided to take my meeting with my coach today in our house's new library, which my metamour @misterjta has recently been working hard on decorating, constructing, and filling with books. The room's not quite finished, but it made for a brilliant space for a bit of quiet reflection and self-growth work.
(Incidentally: I might be treating "lives in a house with a library" as a measure of personal success. Like: this is what winning at life looks like, right? Because whatever else goes wrong, at least you can go hide in the library!)
I decided to take my meeting with <a href="https://www.voracoaching.com/">my coach</a> today in our house's new library, which <a href="https://electricquaker.fox.q-t-a.uk/">my metamour JTA</a> has recently been working hard on decorating, constructing, and filling with books. The room's not quite finished, but it made for a brilliant space for a bit of quiet reflection and self-growth work. <a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/03/20250312_103923-scaled.jpg"><img width="640" height="360" src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2025/03/20250312_103923-640x360.jpg" class="aligncenter size-i640" alt="Dan, a white man with a ponytail, wearing a black shirt and jeans, sits in a rocking chair in front of an open laptop at a long desk; he has a notebook in his hand and holds a pen near his lips. He's in a domestic library with deep red walls, balanced-arm lamps, a woven rug on a wooden floor, and the wall behind him entirely covered with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. A grassy lawn and sapling trees can be seen through a window, bordered by floral curtains and two clumsily-placed WiFi routers that sit on the window ledge. On the corner of the desk lie various hand tools, suggesting that light construction work has recently taken place." loading="lazy"></a> (Incidentally: I might be treating "lives in a house <em>with a library</em>" as a measure of personal success. Like: this is what winning at life looks like, right? Because whatever else goes wrong, at least you can go hide in the library!)
@bespacific @danlyke It’s hard to accept these astonishing results. If you heat a well-insulated commercial building for 1000 workers, surely that has a much lower footprint than heating 1000 individual homes (many of which are likely poorly insulated). Surely car emissions are insignificant compared to that difference.
What they do not seem to account for is careless idiots who will heat their house even when no one is home, or to a level comfortable for humans when only pets are in the house. Office working would have less impact than #teleworking if done right (cycle to work and leave the home cold when working).
Step/ski into my office! Today I'm working from a cafe overlooking an indoor ski slope where my kids are having lessons!
It’s not just techilliterates.. it’s car drivers. A car driver is a #convenienceZombie. So are consumers to don’t boycott. Every single buying decision should be a vote.. but that’s too much effort for the convenience zombies.
It’s also the #teleworking people.. who separately heat and cool their house because they’re too lazy to go to a shared building where the heating and cooling can be efficiently centralized. They are convenience zombies too.
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