Brent Simmons on working at home, in an interview by Shawn Blanc):
BRENT: Ever since I was a kid I pictured myself working at home. I thought it would be as a novelist rather than a programmer, but it’s about the same thing: I sit in a chair in front of a computer and make things up.
I like people and I like meeting people and hanging out. But I don’t like working face-to-face and day-to-day with people. I’m quite introverted that way. I just find it draining, and always have, going way back to elementary school.
I sometimes think of it this way: there are dog people and cat people. Pack animals, with their politics and pecking order, on one hand — and solitary hunters, camouflaged in the tall grass, on the other. I can be gregarious, and I’m certainly competitive, but I live further along the feline side of the spectrum than most folks. Which is not at all unusual for geeks.
I make exception for my wife, of course. We work well together. And it is indeed great that we’re both home all day.
I never thought of myself as a “cat person”, but perhaps I am, at least relationally. And, contrary to popular opinion, I have spent some time working in an office. I just prefer working by myself, at home. kthxbye.
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