Faced with remote workers, small-business owners are scrambling for a strategy: Cultivate those customers, unplug the Wi-Fi — or both.
Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes - Fast Company
We asked the most privacy-aware people we could find what it would take to go off the radar. Hint: You're going to need to do more than throw away your laptop.
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Rain and cafe sounds for working, with fire, thunder and wind, and a focus timer.
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The best way to work remotely: 8 proven strategies for better remote work
After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...
The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom
A wealth of studies on students’ use of computers in the classroom supports the notion of banning them.
We're Ditching the Office Completely: Here's Why
Last week we closed down Buffer's only physical office. We're now fully, truly remote. Here are the reasons why.
'Life needs to be more like this': Some bars and restaurants are going phone free
It's not just schools that are banning cellphones. Some bars and restaurants are joining the offline trend.
Students are Better Off without a Laptop in the Classroom
What do you think they’ll actually use it for?
7 Useful Tips for Anyone Connecting to Public Wi-Fi
Our public spaces are now awash with wireless internet. Make sure you’re getting the most out of every connection.
Decentralizing My Smartphone With Single Purpose Devices
Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...
Slower Living Club: A field guide to disconnecting and the life that opens up
Notes on living slower: how to quiet the phone you own, dumbphones to browse and compare, books, research, and how to start a club where you live.
Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture
When fixing items is actively discouraged by manufacturers, recycling becomes a political act, say Repair Cafe volunteers
The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets
Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.
Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky
If you want to attract and keep developers, don't emphasize ping-pong tables, lounges, fire pits and chocolate fountains. Give them private offices or let
Free Public WiFi
Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school student I was not prepared to pay in excess of $15 a day for the internet. As I remember, a Motel 6 that was not blocks away but within line of sight ended up filling the role. But even up there, 62 floors from the ground, there was false promise: Free Public WiFi.
