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Is "work from home on a team" different than "work from home bootstrapping by yourself"? The article mentions "While working from the office, it’s hard to get quality work done every day. Doing it from home is even harder" and at least for me, it's much easier to get quality work done at home. Maybe I'm lucky and have built a distraction free home (no kids, wife, or goats).

The other tips don't seem to be "work from home" specific.

As a side note, I think it's really funny how much importance people put on their coffee ritual. I'm a tea drinker, which must mean I'm just a plebeian ;-)

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Working from home on a team feels different. My work hours are more constrained, to align with the office-bound team. I'm on video calls with the team several times a day, and need to be available for that.

I think the morning ritual is to an extent wfh specific. It's obvious that you get yourself together when you're heading into the office, but at home it's so easy just to open up the laptop and stay in bed. It's so easy to blur the line between work time and home time this way, and lose your balance one way or the other.

I have the vpn token on a lanyard; I find this helps as a mental signal that I'm on company time. I also try to do my morning session in a cafe - this forces me to be up and out with the world, and introduces a cutoff point when 'home' ends.

I want to like working in Cafes. I focus easier, the energy is invigorating, less loneliness.. but invariably every coffee shop visit is accompanied by flaky connection issues. I usually lose 30 min of productivity messing with it and then give up and go home to good internet.

Well, with me its a coin toss, I've had many days where the home internet was unusable, and the cafe's ok for my needs (mostly just ssh) - except when a bunch of teens come in and open up youtube simultaneously. It's too noisy for hangouts though, so I only use it at a point in the day when calls are unlikely.

I found this to be true as well. You should really look into a mifi. At ~50 bucks a month it is well worth the investment, especially if you have a bus commute or like working in coffee shops, etc as you mentioned.

I tether to my phone but my favorite coffee shop doesn't get good cell reception for me either :/

If I really enjoy the task working from home improves my output, but when it's boring I do almost nothing.

I'm a tea drinker as well, but I think it's other way around.

Since the advent of third-wave coffee houses, I think coffee has reclaimed the high-brow market. But this may just because I'm a coffee drinker and I want to feel superior to you in this moment we share over the internet :P

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