I was told by a friend in the educational-program-assessment industry that the more general form of this is “parallel play”—spending time in the physical company of someone else but doing your own thing. It’s more enjoyable than working alone, even if you’re not directly communicating, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also more productive. Hence the existence of Coworking and similar programs. (I’m not familiar with that specific site, but it’s at least a good description of the concept. I can’t remember the name of the local office space where you can rent a desk for a day for this purpose.)
Our days still overlap. You may not get a full day of work done, but a couple hours is still valuable. Also, I often stay up at night because I work from home.
Um… maybe you misunderstood the idea? Start a VNC server on your machine so the other guy can see you goofing off and tell you to stop via chat. And vice versa.
This reminds me of Pair Programming, which I happened to re-invent while in college… I get much more productive when working with a partner.
I was told by a friend in the educational-program-assessment industry that the more general form of this is “parallel play”—spending time in the physical company of someone else but doing your own thing. It’s more enjoyable than working alone, even if you’re not directly communicating, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also more productive. Hence the existence of Coworking and similar programs. (I’m not familiar with that specific site, but it’s at least a good description of the concept. I can’t remember the name of the local office space where you can rent a desk for a day for this purpose.)
(Edited to fix broken link.)
Wanna try it with me? I remember you had trouble getting programming work done.
I would, if not for the inconvenient fact that you happen to live on the other side of the world. (You’re Russian, if I recall correctly.)
Our days still overlap. You may not get a full day of work done, but a couple hours is still valuable. Also, I often stay up at night because I work from home.
Yes, but how are we going to share a keyboard and monitor when we’re thousands of miles apart?
VNC.
Oh… you mean pair programming? Yeah, that would be difficult to do remotely. I thought we were talking about my akrasia idea. Sorry.
Um… maybe you misunderstood the idea? Start a VNC server on your machine so the other guy can see you goofing off and tell you to stop via chat. And vice versa.