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Working Effectively from Home, making Dreams Come True By Michael Sliwinski, Editor
I
t is my great pleasure to give you
from home, including yours truly. That’s
this fourth issue of Productive!
why there’s always a challenge of balance
Magazine. I know, I know, we have
between work and private life. The two
procrastinated with this one and
boundaries blend and very often it’s hard to
released it later than expected, but it is
draw the lines between the two.
finally here, on your screens. Enjoy.
popular blogs on the Internet, Zen Habits The main rationale behind working from
Because of so many things happening in
home is not a way to save money. It is
beautiful island of Guam or from San
my private life, ie. my responsibilities as a
mostly a lifestyle choice and I love it. I fell in
Francisco (OK, not yet, but he is moving
father and our move to a new apartment,
love with the concept when I was in college
there this year!). We also have Stephanie
the time I had left to work has been used to
writing my final thesis on Teleworking
Dickinson, one of the most famous home-
focus on my company, my web app - Nozbe
(Telecommuting). This is why the theme
office workers on the planet, author of „The
and the new web app that we are going
of this issue of Productive! Magazine is
30-Second Commute:A Non-Fiction Comedy
to release this year. Let’s hope it’s the last
„working from home” and we have great
about Writing and Working From Home”.
delay in the Productive! Magazine history.
experts to help me tell more about the subject.
Now on to this issue’s theme. Let’s start with my own company - no, we don’t have a physical „central office”. Everyone works
directly from his home office on the
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To cover the theme of productivity of the self-employed home-worker, we’ve got
First off, we’ve got über-blogger Leo Babauta who writes one of the most
Art Carden’s review of the New York Times bestseller „The Four-Hour Workweek”