Traffic and the Internet
April 9th, 2005
My life consists of working on "the 'Net". My dream: worldwide connectivity, people working around the globe together on great and impressive projects, for the well-being of mankind. Reality: I spend 1 hour every morning to get to work. I get mails from people in India in 5 seconds, but getting to work takes me 1 hour. Usually, the commute back home takes about 30 minutes. So let's calculate: A day is 24 hours. You spend 8 hours (at least) at work. To be healthy, you need another 8 hours to sleep. That leaves you 8 hours of "your own time", in which you can do interesting stuff like eating, washing up, and whatnot. Of that 8 hours, 1 hour and a half is taken away from me. Every day. That is 20% of my "free" time. Let me repeat that: I spend one fifth of the time that is "my own" in traffic. And what for? To log on on the same Internet as I have at home. It is getting to me. I must be mad.
Another draft I found, authored on 1 October 2003. I switched jobs to somewhere I could commute on bicycle to on March 1, 2004.
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