<story><title>A Decade of Remote Work</title><url>https://blog.viktorpetersson.com/2019/05/18/a-decade-of-remote.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knappe</author><text>So one thing that isn&amp;#x27;t mentioned in this article that I think is incredibly important is making sure you maintain a social life outside of work.&lt;p&gt;When working at an office you tend to spend time with your coworkers outside of work and that is something you don&amp;#x27;t really get an opportunity to take advantage of when you&amp;#x27;re remote.  Be sure to make some effort to get out of the house and be social in some form.  Otherwise it becomes too easy to become isolated and you can suffer because of it.  It also helps with counteracting the problem of overworking, since you have other obligations in you day that push you towards wrapping up work for the day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notacoward</author><text>Totally agree, and thank you. As much as I enjoy being alone, if I go too long without any significant social contact my &amp;quot;social muscles&amp;quot; start to atrophy. I start misinterpreting others&amp;#x27; social cues, I forget how to do the usual give-and-take of a normal conversation, I start coming across as aloof or pushy (which is enough of a problem for me already). It&amp;#x27;s particularly helpful to have social contact, even if it&amp;#x27;s just VC, with the members of my team, so I can &amp;quot;stay in practice&amp;quot; interacting with those particular personalities in that particular environment, but social contact with &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; is almost as good.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Decade of Remote Work</title><url>https://blog.viktorpetersson.com/2019/05/18/a-decade-of-remote.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knappe</author><text>So one thing that isn&amp;#x27;t mentioned in this article that I think is incredibly important is making sure you maintain a social life outside of work.&lt;p&gt;When working at an office you tend to spend time with your coworkers outside of work and that is something you don&amp;#x27;t really get an opportunity to take advantage of when you&amp;#x27;re remote.  Be sure to make some effort to get out of the house and be social in some form.  Otherwise it becomes too easy to become isolated and you can suffer because of it.  It also helps with counteracting the problem of overworking, since you have other obligations in you day that push you towards wrapping up work for the day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>&amp;gt; When working at an office you tend to spend time with your coworkers outside of work&lt;p&gt;Never experienced this. Is it really that common? I love my coworkers but they are colleagues, not friends.</text></comment>