About Focus Work Remote

Remote work broke something for a specific category of workers around 2021 and 2022, and the typical advice kept insisting it was fixable with better scheduling. This site exists for the people who tried the scheduling and found the problem was somewhere else.

Focus Work Remote covers cognitive performance for remote workers: supplement reviews, habit experiments, and the environmental adjustments that either narrow or widen the attention gap between home office work and in-person work. The scope is deliberately narrow. Nothing here on general wellness, fitness, or mental health treatment. Attention and cognitive performance for people working remotely, full stop.

The content skews toward the frustrating problems: things that helped a little but not enough, things that worked for a month then stopped, and the specific cognitive cost that video calls impose on the back half of a workday. The archive includes failures alongside wins, because a track record with no failures is not a track record.

Run by Jamie Okafor, a Portland-based freelance developer. The author page has the background on how evaluations are conducted and what gets covered.

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