What a Nuclear Submarine Captain Knows About Self-Isolating
How to work from home with the same people for a long, long time
Like many people around the world, I am currently in a state of self-quarantine.
This is stressful on several levels. My wife and I both work full time, our three-year-old daughter insists, rather greedily, on routine care and feeding, and ceaseless domestic and professional demands, coupled with an inability to ever go outside our long, narrow apartment, itself coupled with the knowledge of the silent nightmare coursing through the city just beyond our walls… well, it’s taking a toll.
Hoping to gain some useful tips staying sane while confined inside a dim, pressurized space for days on end, while stressed out, tired, irritable, disoriented, and quite likely living off dwindling supplies of fresh food, I did what one does: I called a legendary submarine captain.
“I’m kind of an introvert anyway, so this is perfect,” he said.
Check-in with people
Life on a submarine, Marquet says, “is hard to describe. You’re underwater. You’re in this steel tube, and if you think about it too much, it kind of freaks you out. But we’re so busy with the work that you don’t sit there thinking, Oh, there’s 500 pounds…
