I've been working remote for the past seven years and I'm much more productive than ever before. I'm intermittent fasting right now, so I wake up early after a

I've been working remote for the past seven years and I'm much more productive than ever before. I'm intermittent fasting right now, so I wake up early after a good night's sleep, do my morning routine, go for a walk and exercise. Then I hit my home office and get busy. I can get a lot done before lunchtime, always much more than I ever did when I was working in an office. Then I have lunch (for me it's really breakfast) with my family. After that, I set aside the afternoons for reading or learning something new; it might be Rust, a foreign language, writing, or a musical instrument. It's my personal investment time. The biggest savings for me are, of course, time. No commute saves a lot of wasted time, as well as avoiding a huge number of meetings that should have been an email, interruptions from people in the open office, micro-managing, DEI performativity, &c. Software engineers need large blocks of uninterrupted time in order to focus and get significant work done.