Every time I sat down to write in the evenings, I’d get distracted by the Internet. For me, the primary culprits are sports news and email. Should I start writing … or should I quickly check for Seahawks news? Should I revise that paragraph? Ugh, that’s hard … instead, I’ll open my inbox … hmm, new notification from LinkedIn … I’ll archive that … C

If I’m working from home, by contrast, we might instead set up a Zoom meeting, which due to the format of most digital calendars will likely require that we set aside at least thirty minutes. “When we work remotely, this kind of ad-hoc coordination becomes harder to organize,”

More than a few knowledge workers, thrust suddenly into remote work, their kids screaming in the next room as they suffered through yet another Zoom meeting, began to wonder, “What are we really doing here?”