I've been working from home for a few months now, and have found articles like these very valuable and adjusting to the lifestyle change (previously I was a tra

I've been working from home for a few months now, and have found articles like these very valuable and adjusting to the lifestyle change (previously I was a traveling consultant living in a hotel ~5 nights a week, so it's a major change for me). Setting up an office and using that space for work and work only has been very helpful. The email/distraction stuff never really bit me, but maybe I've always been a bit distracted. Having my spouse adjust has been a challenge. Being asked to feed the cat etc. while 12 frames deep debugging is very frustrating. I was initially concerned about discipline, but found rather that I now end up overworking - it's deceptively easy to work 10 or 11 hours a day when at home, as you tend to micro-scrutinize the time you spend not actually typing code. If I'm at the office and I spend 15 minutes chatting with a coworker, I don't feel guilty about those 15 minutes. If I'm at home and I read Facebook for 5 minutes I probably work another half an hour. Something I need to get better on, at any rate. I love reading these submissions though, as they have already given me enough good ideas to make working from home work for me. I'm curious to see, as more and more people start adopting this lifestyle, what other tricks and strategies will emerge. (For me, a pre-dawn winter hike and a bit of skiing at first light is worth whatever other lifestyle changes I have to make to adopt to working from home!)