Working from trains

There's a particular kind of focus that only shows up on a moving train. You can't get off, the wifi is too weak for anything but the document in front of you, and the landscape does the job a white-noise app pretends to. I get more done in a three-hour rail leg than in a full day at a desk.

Part of it is the constraint. Motion without obligation — nowhere to be until the next station — turns out to be a near-perfect work environment. I've started planning routes around the long legs on purpose.