Scattered observations from six-weeks of “work from home” at startups

Work/Life balance is probably the most difficult. Most of my pre-Covid after-work activities revolved around going out on group activities, restaurants, movies, and travel. All things we currently are unable to do. So I definitely find myself working a lot more and I already worked a remote software development position.

I find that I have to schedule and force myself to do other things such as stream some TV series and play multi-player online games just to distract the mind for a couple hours. I am in the Northeast US so our weather still sucks and we are not yet able to enjoy outside activities. My wife and I did make a couple batches of masks for some local responders and nursing home staff, but that was only a limited distraction vs. weeks of isolation (since 3/1).