So, Stedman, tell me what you're looking at right now.

What do you see out the window?

Right now, at the window, it's just, it's a wall of trees.

This is Stedman Hood.

He's working remotely in case that wasn't clear.

Very remotely.

So we're on the top of this mountain

and we're looking down into a valley and on the other side it's another mountain range.

Stedman is renting a house in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a few hours south of San Francisco

where he lived until just a few months ago. So far, he's finding his new lifestyle pretty agreeable.

So what is there to do?

It's basically a lot of introspection.

Exercise, I think, self-care generally.

There's a little more time for that.

And just the pace of life is slower.

Like, it feels like there's more, there's more time out here

for the important, not urgent things. What falls under that category for you that you're able to do now

that you weren't doing before? One thing is learning Chinese. That's something I've been meaning to

do forever. And now I just, I feel, you know, I have no commute.

And I'm sort of like looking for things to fill the space of the downtime.

Ah, the good life.

It wasn't so long ago that Stedman was a worker bee in the big city.

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