HOW TO NOT GO FERAL WHEN YOU WORK FROM HOME
A Survival Guide for the Domestically Challenged
 
You've been working from home for a while now. And if you're honest with yourself, things have gotten... weird.
 
You can't remember the last time you left the house. Your "work clothes" and pajamas have become the same thing. You're having detailed conversations with your cat about project deadlines. And when someone unexpectedly knocks on the door, you wonder if you're presentable.
 
Welcome to going feral. It happens to the best of us.
 
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
 
This is the guide someone should have given you on day one of working from home—before you forgot what day it is, started eating like a raccoon, and lost all ability to make small talk with actual humans.
 
Written by someone who's worked remotely for over a decade (and made every mistake you're currently making), this book tackles the uncomfortable truths about working from home that nobody talks about: how easy it is to let basic standards slip when nobody's watching, and how hard it is to maintain your humanity when your commute is five steps and your coworkers are pixels on a screen.
 
WHAT'S INSIDE
 
The Morning Ritual - Why rolling from bed to Zoom is destroying your life
The Hygiene Hierarchy - When "nobody can smell you through the screen" becomes a problem
Pants: A Persuasive Essay - The controversial case for getting dressed
Humans Need Sunlight - Why your houseplants are getting more sun than you
The Social Animal in Captivity - Recognizing when you've forgotten how to talk to people
Moving Your Meat Suit - Why sitting is slowly killing you (cheerfully!)
Eating Like a Person, Not a Raccoon - Breaking the all-day grazing cycle
The Boundaries You Need - When work ends and "still work but on the couch" begins
Your Space Matters - Why working from bed is ruining everything
The Mental Game - Loneliness, isolation, and the Zoom fatigue blues
 
Plus chapters on creating structure, maintaining relationships, staying human, and measuring your feral-ness with a self-assessment quiz.
 
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
 
This book will help you:
 
Create sustainable routines that don't require superhuman willpower—just enough structure to keep you from descending into chaos.
Maintain basic human standards without turning into some perfectly optimized productivity robot. (We're aiming for "functional human," not "corporate drone.")
Set boundaries between work and life when they're happening in the same physical space and your brain can't tell the difference anymore.
Stay connected to other humans and remember how to have conversations that don't involve emojis and GIFs.
Protect your mental health from the isolation and weird psychological effects of working alone all the time.
Find your equilibrium between the flexibility you love about remote work and the structure you need to stay sane.
 
You'll get practical strategies that actually work (because they're born from years of hard-won experience), delivered with enough humor to keep you reading and enough honesty to make you realize you're not the only one struggling with this.
 
THE BOTTOM LINE
 
Working from home can be amazing. No commute, no office politics, the freedom to blast music without headphones. But without external structure, it's surprisingly easy to slide from "functional professional" to "disoriented cryptid who frightens delivery drivers."
 
Because here's the truth: remote work is here to stay. You might as well learn how to do it without completely losing your grip on civilization.