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You Can’t Use The Corner Of Your Desk For Awesome And Successful Projects

Kevin Wanke
7 min readMay 14, 2021

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Before reading any further, stop, scoot your chair back, and take a look around.

What does your reading environment look like? Where are you right now? Are you at work taking a few minutes to browse the web? Are you outside catching up on some news and reading while enjoying the fresh air? Have you been sitting too long in the bathroom while glued to your phone?

Twenty years ago, if you were reading a blog then most likely you would have been tied to a desk somewhere, looking at a big and bulky CRT monitor with an actual trackball inside your mouse.

Now, chances are, you are sitting there swiping with a finger on a 6 inch screen with more resolution than that massive CRT monitor had those 20 years ago.

Yet even with the change in technology and habits over the past two decades, the concept of a “desk” and “work” still go hand in hand.

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It doesn’t matter that the location has changed. Instead of a plastic tabletop in a soulless gray cubicle, in 2020 you could be working from reclaimed old barn planks in a trendy coffee shop. You could be banging away at the keys on a cheap plastic table in your basement.

However, in every case, the area around you that you are performing “work” has the makings of…

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Kevin Wanke
Kevin Wanke

Written by Kevin Wanke

Engineer. Manager. Dadmin. Wanna-be Writer. Editor-In-Chief & Grand Poobah of www.kevinwanke.com

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