#291: Work from Home Stories

#291: Work from Home Stories

In this week's episode we're talking about the highs and lows working from home and how we balance our career dreams with raising young children. We've got several great listener questions to cover and we'll share an extra hot Hot Take Debate.

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Our home work spaces:

Elsie - Uses her sunroom as her art studio and moves around to different spaces in her house with her laptop

Emma - Extra bedroom is office, sometimes works from coffee shop or library

Pros and cons of working from home:

Pros - Good way to keep life balanced

Cons - Lots of distractions

How you deal with distractions:

Set timer to get tasks done

Time boxing

Use a reward system

Book Reports:

Elsie: The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Emma: Twisted Love by Anna Huang

HOT TAKE DEBATE Anne: Here's my hot take: we don't need any more movies based on books. They're different mediums! Let books be books and movies be movies. I want to see more movies that were written to be MOVIES and tailored to that medium, written to take advantage of all the cool things you can do onscreen. Same for books: I want more authors to take advantage of the cool things you can do in a book that you CAN'T do onscreen. I've read books that felt like they secretly wanted to be screenplays. Play to the strengths of your medium! No more crossing the streams!

A Joke & A fact with Nova.

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