I switched from remote back to in-person about 2 months ago, and to be honest I&#x27;d completely forgotten how much easier it is to get some things done in a co-located environment. There were a lot of great things about working from home, but getting things done at anything above a &quot;banging out the actual code&quot; scale was not one of them.<p>I wish I could take back all my prior invocations of the complaint that someone interrupting me for 15 seconds eats 15 minutes of my productivity. Not only have I come to recognize just how transparently self-centered that meme is (and I&#x27;m embarrassed that I couldn&#x27;t see it before, but given all the other great things about working from home I suppose a little confirmation bias is understandable), I&#x27;ve also realized that there are really quite a few domains where premature optimization is the root of all evil.