Working while playing

Did I mention my spiffy Barcelona hotel has a nice rooftop cafe? I didn’t huh, well, let me tell you, it does.

view from the roof

And so this brings up the interesting question, is it better to work in such an environment, with distractions at every hand, or in a cell, isolated?

my work-atorium

It’s an interesting question. There was that time I was flying back from Khazakstan – another “how did I get here” story, for sure – and I coded an entire database access subroutine during the flight. Suboptimal conditions, or perfect for work? Not clear.

Anyway after a time I decided the rooftop was just fine for work, and worked, and felt much better for having done so. Until it was time to ramble…