Day in the Life of a Remote Worker: Scott Mathson

• 7-8:00a - Enjoy the morning with my wife and our pets. Feed the animals (and sometimes ourselves, though I'm not much of a breakfast person), go outside and enjoy morning coffee, taking in the surrounding mountain views. I wake slowly and take my time in the mornings, do a bit of journaling, check-in on phone notifications, and go over the day's calendar events.
• 8-9:00a - Go into home office and check-in on more notifications, catching-up on Slack messages, planning for the day and accepting/scheduling following days' meetings. Go through email inbox, briefly responding to, cleaning, deleting, and reading through a variety of emails, including a handful of newsletters that I enjoy following. Occasionally I'll work mornings from my local coworking space or coffee shops, too.
• 9-11:00a - Morning time is usually my most productive time period. Mornings are my head's down, hands-on contribution time, often spent reviewing pull requests for new content/webpages/features/bug fixes and editing and writing (copy, code, and content).
• 11-1:00p - Mid-morning into early afternoon is typically when I'll go into meetings, whether group Zoom calls, recurring meetings, 1-on-1's, or otherwise. During this time, I check back in on my inboxes and notifications, updating folks and receiving updates from folks on statuses of latest initiatives, campaigns, and a variety of web projects.
• 1-3:00p - I create afternoon, recurring/ongoing calendar time-slots to be dedicated to checking in on reports for current projects, tests and experiments running, latest campaigns, and more. I'll go over automated reports, build-out manual reports, review web property analytics, and other numbers. I take time for lunch sometime within this afternoon block.

• 3-6:00p - This block of time is also prime for 1-on-1 meetings, video syncs, and other meetings. If not in calls/meetings, or discussing things via Slack, I'll revisit pull requests, issues, and initiatives I'm overseeing, contributing to, or having discussions in, and focus on reviewing, suggesting, and making code changes in a variety of repositories. Every day is unique and different, yet this is a good general overview of my schedule.
• 6:00p+ - Time with my wife enjoying things like cooking together, house projects, watching movies/shows, going to concerts, art shows, walking our puppy, and more. As well, I'm often attending meetups, doing agency/studio contract work, side project work, and some late meetings and chatting/planning.