And that’s why I like working from home

So they can listen to Aphex Twin at max volume with their robot ears and not frighten all the non-robots.

What a great article. Practical and poetic.

It would have been nice to have a connection made to Flow, since that’s what was being alluded to throughout, but maybe excluding Flow was deliberate in some way I’m missing?

Sounds a lot like what Joel Spolsky was advocating for since 2003, although now it’s easier since most people already have a private office, just not in “the office”.

So you can lock them in.

If I remember correctly there was a Japanese videogame studio who did that in the 80’s they locked their development team in the office. I can’t find the article any more though.