Working without the Internet

Last week I spent 3 days working from College Station, TX. I spent most of my time detached from the interwebs and found it actually very very productive. 

The perfect balanced seemed to be having limited and easy to turn on and off access. While I didn't have wifi most of the time, I had setup my phone to be a tethered modem. Now this isn't exactly in line with the User Agreement of my carrier and that fact kept me from having it on the whole time.

The point is, I turned on the internet only when I needed it, which turned out to be less than 5 minutes every hour. Five minutes. That's crazy to me considering how many times per MINUTE I get dings and chirps and whistles all from internet driven activity.

Of course I wasn't doing many video conferences etc, but for getting actual work done, it seemed to workout really well. I may start trying this more often....we'll see.