Electric Josh

Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Down the Cape over the long weekend I realized that I am but two readily-available pieces of equipment away from getting real work done on the beach. This is good. It makes one wonder, in fact, how many other people are going to discover similarly superior places to work, and presumably start refusing to work indoors in a fluorescently-lit building to which they must first commute.

A growing number of folks at work are realizing that they can take their 802.11b-equipped laptops into the cute little park next door to the office and do their work in the happy out-of-doors. There are fewer interruptions and the surroundings are nicer. There is grass. There is space to stretch out among the flowers and whatnot. And once one isn't physically inside the building, one might as well be very far away from the building. For those of us lucky enough to be allowed to think and type for a living, the time may be rapidly approaching when large numbers of us (including those who are, like me, not self-employed) don't actually have to go anywhere to go to work. The mind boggles. #