Look. I'm just gonna say it.
If you can do your work on a laptop screen, you don't do any real work.
When you send your little "let's meet up at a co-working location!" stuff, we all know it means nothing's getting done that day.
Real work takes place on an external monitor, most likely with an external keyboard and mouse.
The only thing you can do on a laptop is attend a meeting.
@rodhilton Rod, I love you bro, but I'm going to disagree.
When I'm writing (whitepaper, blog, tech note) for my company, I do that wherever I am at, and a laptop screen is usually enough. An external keyboard is desirable, because the laptop keyboard is crap, but the screen is sufficient.
Also sufficient to take notes during a customer call - the meeting you refer to. Yes, this can absolutely be real work.
I do think back to being a coder (20 years ago) but I had younger eyes then :)
@ThomDenholm Skeptical. Even writing, I would imagine you're referencing something, looking things up, etc. And therefore are probably benefitting from having the screen real estate.
I can *maybe* see writing fiction or a screenplay in some kind of focus-mode.
But even then your neck will thank you for an external monitor at eye level rather than hunched over a little screen.
Sorry, my ruling stands 😆
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