> The workplace has to be established, distractions (much less than what is in the office, but still) have to be managed. Social needs have to be satisfied sy some other means.
> Still, work from anywhere
And this is the contradiction I find hard to manage. Not saying it's impossible, more in the "not sure how to do it"
Good equipment is important. A nice desk is important.
If you're hopping over AirBnbs, it's hard to carry all your stuff with you and have a good desktop experience wherever you go.
Working outside (from a balcony) is usually not great. Screens are not great on sunlight, then there's rain, wind, etc. And concentration suffers a bit
Well, obviously couchsurfing doesn't mesh well with a polished and lovely dedicated workspace. That's not the point.
The point is that remote work allows you to carve out that lovely workplace just about anywhere as opposed to being forced to some arbitrary and thus by definition suboptimal location.
I just rent houses in nice places by a sea. Mediterranean usually, but also Goa and Caribbean and whatnot. I think the shortest strech was two months or so. Median is about a year or two. At these time scales moving 30kg or so of equipment isn't much of a problem.
A desk and a chair - now that I prefer to DIY, desk from some local wood stock, chair - take a nice leather auto seat from some local auto salvage shop, mount it on an office chair's base. Done in an evening, costs almost nothing, much superior to every overpriced office chair, usually given away when I move out.
> Still, work from anywhere
And this is the contradiction I find hard to manage. Not saying it's impossible, more in the "not sure how to do it"
Good equipment is important. A nice desk is important.
If you're hopping over AirBnbs, it's hard to carry all your stuff with you and have a good desktop experience wherever you go.
Working outside (from a balcony) is usually not great. Screens are not great on sunlight, then there's rain, wind, etc. And concentration suffers a bit
It looks a bit complicated at first glance.