Set Up a New Laptop the Day It Arrives — What HP's 7-Day Dead-on-Arrival Rule Taught Me

A new laptop arrived defective, but I was slow to notice and nearly missed HP's 7-day dead-on-arrival window. The conclusion is simple: set up and test a new laptop the day it arrives.

Health Habits for a Fully-Remote Worker — Closing the 10-Year Fitness Gap with Walks, Mobile AI Coding, and a Sit-Stand Desk

Office workers teleworking four-plus days per week showed a roughly 10-year-equivalent decline in physical fitness compared to non-teleworkers (Meiji Yasuda Health Foundation, December 2025). As someone working fully remote, I want to write down the habits I actually keep: walks scheduled inside work hours, leaning on Claude Code and Codex from mobile, and defaulting to a sit-stand desk.

Full Remote Work Isn't for Everyone — Reading the 'Home Alone' Isolation Study from Both Sides of the Household

Full remote work is comfortable. But what if a mental-health cost is quietly accumulating behind that comfort? The new Science study 'Home alone' shows, with data from nearly 590,000 workers, that working from home increases isolation and worsens mental health, and that the harm concentrates among people who live alone. I have lived through full remote work both alone and in a household of five. Here I read the study's data against both versions of my life.