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6 tips on working from home

So you’ve suddenly found yourself working from home—theoretically temporarily, perhaps not willingly, and all thanks to coronavirus. Well, I’m here to tell you that the WFH life is not so bad. In fact, it can be downright great.

Read just about any article offering tips for working from home, and you’ll likely come across the same general, gloomy advice. Hope you have a separate room for your office! Don’t stay in your PJs all day! Set boundaries between work time and personal time! Better find ways to increase human contact or you’ll surely go insane!

Enough already. I’ve spent about 80% of my career working remotely, and, in my unofficial opinion, working from home is the best. And you can and should work however you’re most comfortable because you’ll find that the more comfortable you are, the better you’ll produce. If you’re new to remote work or you’re having a hard time getting used to it, here are some things that make it great.

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The Anti-Amazon Alliance

When the Internet digitizes what used to be analog assets, we often find out that jobs that were once done together end up in radically different places. The classic example are newspapers: they carried both editorial and advertisements, but it turns out that was simply a function of who owned printing presses and delivery trucks; once the Internet came along advertisers, which cared about reaching customers, not supporting journalists, switched to Facebook and Google, which had aggregated the former and commoditized the latter.

So it is with shelves: when the supply was constrained by physical space, they were extremely valuable for not just discovery but also distribution, but once the Internet made shelf space effectively infinite, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the solutions to discovery and distribution developed differently.

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Why Mark Cuban Loves Email

“I try to drive everything to email for a couple reasons,” Cuban says. “One, I can do it any time of the night. Two, it gives me a tickler file of all the things I’m doing, what’s undone or unread, I try to keep those to under 30. And three, if someone emailed me ten, fifteen, twenety years ago, I still have it… I can go back and look it up and figure out what we talked about. That makes me even more productive. In a  work at home environment, with everyone using email and the cloud… I try to encourage people to do it the same way.”

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