> This post is so deeply antisocial it makes me sad The post is describing what works for him. While in the midst of something, mails, random greetings, IM pin

> This post is so deeply antisocial it makes me sad The post is describing what works for him. While in the midst of something, mails, random greetings, IM pings are extremely irritating. When I was at my day job, I always had my headphones to cut myself from the open cube farm. When you are working on something, apart from the required inputs and division of responsibility, it isn't a group activity. If you find it antisocial, well, that's how it is. Programming isn't alone in that regard. Think sculpting, painting, theorem proving, creating music etc. All of these activities can, and are generally done as a team, but the individual's work is his own. > I invariably have more fun and I am more productive and creative when working with other people. I am curious. How else you suggest you go about programming? > Maybe this is why so many programmers struggle with being social. Since your premise was lone wolf nature of coding, I presume you will be making the same conclusions about sculpting and painting? I don't think you have a valid inference here. > I feel like there is a message about work/life balance in there It's simple - when you are working, you aren't free to take long and/or frequent calls from family/friends; or go fetch grocery even if you are working from home. When you are at home, unless it's a serious outage, you don't take unnecessary calls relating to work.