What a Nuclear Submarine Captain Knows About Self-Isolating

How to work from home with the same people for a long, long time

Joe Keohane
Forge
Published in
5 min readMar 26, 2020

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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…

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Joe Keohane
Forge
Writer for

Former Features Director at Medium, and editor at Esquire and Entrepreneur. Written for New York magazine, New Yorker, The New Republic, Boston Globe, etc. NYC.