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When you work remotely, it is important that coworkers know you are present and involved.

Being focused and productive is a great feeling. When you switch tasks to something else, there is a delay before you reach maximum focus on the new thing. That delay is the cost of context switching.

Meetings and interruptions are two of the worst things about working in an office. When people work remotely, it becomes a little more difficult to interrupt people and start meetings. That is a good thing.

When you work from home, people are tempted to interrupt you. Here are a few tips on how to deal with that.

Setting up your own work environment is both an opportunity and a challenge. Here are some things that have worked for me.

People accumulate digital keepsakes. What is the best way to keep these?

Understanding creates a deeper appreciation for the things around us, and allows us to infer unseen things.

The feelings associated with typefaces change over time.

An odyssey in household dialect.

The Wende Muesum in Los Angeles has book-lined halls. The books are written in a language I do not understand, using an alphabet I do not know.

Erick Schat’s Bakkery in Bishop, California has the largest variety of bread I have ever seen.

While in Dublin, I walked everywhere I needed to go.

This is just a few of the things I enjoyed. There is a lot more than this to see in Dublin.

Traveling with a phone does not have to involve roaming fees.

Notebooks are a treasure for creative people. Buying these notebooks helps a good cause.

A regular expression, also known as “regex”, is useful for complex searches.

Bear is an elegant way to make notes and write documents.

I have switched phone providers a few times. Here are some things I learned along the way.

Traveling with a phone does not have to involve roaming fees.

Verizon is a premium service, on a premium network, at a premium price.