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Ah crap - a popup!

I'm writing a personal guidebook to working from home - if this sounds interesting please fill out the form over the right.

If it doesn't, hit Escape, close this window, restart your computer, and flee to Mexico.

There was no X and hitting Escape as instructed didn't do anything either. Was able to click outside to make it go away but still..
The X is way up in the upper right. Not a great design.
Did not receive popup, that being said, I have a 'Privacy Badger'[0] plugin which blocked the following websites.

s3.buysellads.com forms.convertkit.com

and some google api websites that I personally block because it makes my internet healthier :-)

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

This was helpful if for nothing else than to illustrate how nuanced the remote work conversation can be. I've also seen companies with a publicly strict on-site policies that are "remote friendly" (remote tolerant?). I agree completely with the author that these are jobs to be careful of.
I find the "Digital Nomad" new trend confusing, most of the times they are just offering relocation help in exchange for cheap work
This feels incomplete without the entry for "Remote, Oregon".
I was working remote for almost two years and can say it cam get really hard. The best advise I can give to anyone is: get yourself a shared office space or hot-desk somewhere. There are absolutely fab shared offices around and its really worth the money. After three months working from my living room i almost became a sociopath and a complete workaholic. But even if you not tend to such behavior its nice to have people around to talk to and have coffee with. We spent a lot of time working, we should have some peps around us.