i don't get how people can do serious thinking without a quiet environment. i'm pretty happy in any quiet, calm office with natural or very good artificial light, but i struggle to think in loud spaces. i wonder how much people liking WFH is this without realizing it.

Aug 15, 2022 · 11:58 PM UTC

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My ideal workplace is an office at a university. Could be the success of Bell Labs and Xerox Parc was the merger of a university setting and a profit motive.
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It really is as simple as not having to commute. The office is a fine place to work, sometimes more productive, but the trip to get there is the real killer.
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I just go on the walk in the hood or ona trail.
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Maybe they have to.
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Depends on your upbringing if you grew up with eight brothers and sisters in a 60 meters apartment in a dense city in a dense neighbourhood. You will be fine with thinking in a loud env
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it’s really not that hard to isolate yourself in your home office and work in a silent environment for some.
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Sounds right, though except when home has boisterous kids around.
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100% same. My focus at home is much better than in an office. As a kid having to take a test in the teacher lounge made me have anxiety.
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Exactly this + doggos + boyfriend near…
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