Last fall, after having been laid off from a high-pressure, 90-hours-a-week job, I joined a company that has a liberal remote work culture. At first I went to t

Last fall, after having been laid off from a high-pressure, 90-hours-a-week job, I joined a company that has a liberal remote work culture. At first I went to the office every day. Then I skipped the commute each time I saw that the NYC subway was having a sh_t day. After two months I was down to two days a week, and after three months I stopped coming in altogether unless I felt like it, which happens to be once every couple of weeks. The amount of time I spend working is anywhere between 4 and 6 hours per day, sometimes less. There are days when I arrive at the 3-hour mark and feel that I won't make progress that day due to needing time to meditate on a problem. Other days I'll code straight through dinner without so much as a toilet break. Ultimately, I determine my own schedule on a tactical basis, and am more productive as a result. I joke that I do 8 hours of work in a 4-hour workday, but this isn't really a joke: it's an understatement. I get more done than ever before in my career.