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Preach, I haven't been to Paris since the Covid restrictions started and I feel so much more rested, I added the 2-3 hours commute to my sleep time and you coul

Preach, I haven't been to Paris since the Covid restrictions started and I feel so much more rested, I added the 2-3 hours commute to my sleep time and you couldn't get me to leave my dead little suburban town for any salary. I do feel some nostalgia for the in-office days but mostly for the times I was alone, like driving through an industrial zone at 5 A.M and seeing the bright red lights of a biochemical plant, the smell of car exhaust for some reason, seeing someone sitting at their desk by the single lit window of an office tower, getting to work first and getting to turn on the lights and get the coffee ready in a completely empty and silent building among many completely empty and silent buildings.

z9znz 4y ago
> 5 A.M and seeing the bright red lights of a biochemical plant, the smell of car exhaust This gives me visions of Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed in the industrial zone. Looking back at my younger self (who regularly drove 190+ kph to work on the freeway), I relish this idea. But is there more to it? The night-time high speed driving, the office-before-others situation... is that not some unique sense of freedom or power? \ For me there is definitely magic in being a capable human in isolation with power to live and excel, especially when I know there will be other humans appearing later. Even at home remotely, there is a sense of power being in control of myself, my coffee-making, my news reading, and then optionally my meeting attendance...