I have a job I can do lying down. Does this make it lesser work? Something for a slothful type? Someone you might call, well, slack?
I explored this idea years ago in a column, making the essential proposition:
There is a law of business conduct never stated but nonetheless all but universal: you only get to lean back in your chair and put your feet up if you're the boss.
Twice I did it when I was not the boss, twice I got a look of withering disapproval. From the boss.
But I find that feet up can be good for thinking. I get some of my best ideas in that posture. Or soaking in the bath. Or lying in bed. Prone, or near-prone seems to be optimal for me.
Thinking in fresh ways, thinking boldly, thinking at length; this is what brings forth iPads and nano-technology; SMS calls and the Hadron Collider.
Today I am doing my work lying down, and it will not by any means be the only edition of this plucky little newsletter to come at you from a sickbed. I am taking to heart your very kind and thoughtful advice about COVID recovery, which is to say, take it very easy, bro.
