About

I’m Markus.

I’ve worked remotely for years now, first freelancing, then as an employee since 2022, moving around Europe for most of it.

Working from home sounds simple until you’re actually doing it. Staying focused is harder than it looks. It can get lonely in a way that catches you off guard. Keeping any real movement in your day, so you don’t just calcify at a desk, takes actual effort. And most people underestimate how much a bad setup wears them down over months: the wrong chair, a monitor at the wrong height, no real line between “work” and “home.”

I’ve hit most of these pitfalls myself. That’s what this site is: what I’ve learned about staying focused, staying healthy, building a setup that actually works, and finding remote work in the first place, plus conversations with other people figuring out their own version of it.

I think remote work beats a commute, every time. But it’s not automatic, and it doesn’t work the same way for everyone. Usually the difference between remote work that works and remote work that grinds you down comes down to a few specific tweaks, to your setup, your routine, or how you think about the day. That’s what I write about here.