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by MattGaiser 766 days ago
I’m kind of curious why people are under the impression that people don’t do this in the office too.

I’ve known people to do full time online masters degrees during office hours. I’ve played a heck of a lot of video games in office. Certainly read a lot of books at the office.

Offices are not some magical “go find work” hypnotic environments.

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I can do nothing from anywhere: Hundreds of hours of KSP, hundreds of hours of factorio. The former in an office, the latter from home.

If anything, in an office there's always an excuse not to work. And if you accidentally enter the zone and get something done, soon you are interrupted by inanities.

I almost always have video playing in the background while I work, it helps me focus.