I’m not extremely productive, but I have 2 use-cases I’m excited about.
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.
Similarly, I'm intrigued by the possibility of using it for coding whilst aboard a sailboat, where having multiple large physical screens isn't a possibility due to limited space and lack of suitable mounting surfaces.
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.
> Similarly, I'm intrigued by the possibility of using it for coding whilst aboard a sailboat, where having multiple large physical screens isn't a possibility due to limited space and lack of suitable mounting surfaces.
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?
I don’t have unlimited PTO, but it sure is nice to shut my laptop at 5 and be somewhere beautiful. I don’t have that luxury at home and it’s a huge perk with my current job.
When I’m on PTO, my laptop doesn’t go with me. I absolutely use all my PTO every year.
As permanently mobile as a wife and young kid allow. We spent 3 months on the road 2 summers ago and had a great time!
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.
In this model, the work pays for the cruising. There's plenty of time to enjoy the elements, local sights, boat maintenance, what have you, after taking care of business.
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.
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.