The short answer for why I work 100% remote? Because I can. That's really the single greatest feature of being a developer today. You can do your thing from

The short answer for why I work 100% remote? Because I can. That's really the single greatest feature of being a developer today. You can do your thing from pretty much anywhere in the world with no reduction in throughput. I can (and have) set up shop for the winter on some remote Central American surf break. I can (and have) moved my main residence to a small village in the French countryside where the quality of life is good and there's enough bouldering to last me a lifetime of afternoons off. I can (and have) simply packed my whole development world onto a 12" Thinkpad and headed off on the road for an entire year. And all those places have wifi. And I can work there. So I do. So even if I found a company that did happen to have an office right next to that perfect left reef pass off the coast of Sumatra, I probably still wouldn't want to commit myself to working there full time. I already have an office there. As well as everywhere else I'd like to be. It didn't used to be like this. And it still isn't for most professions. But it absolutely is for software. As a developer, I think you'd be crazy to pass up on it. So yeah, that's why.