The other side of work environment

30 Jun 2004

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Since Esther Derby is talking about creating an environment for success, here's another input. I've just had an experience about a good physical work environment.

I spent the day working at The Bandwidth Barn instead of at work.

About two hours in, I noticed that my eyes weren't hurting, they weren't dry, and I was feeling great (and in a good mood). No dust, good air flow, great lighting, nice temperature.

And another physical environment thing: Working on my beefy home machine was such a pleasure!

Don't think I've been so productive in ages.

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

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    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

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    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

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    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

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