Mrs. Phoenix expressed her concern on this point just last night

Saith Amazon's Rich Sloan:

Home-based?

Well, I work for Google and attend grad school in the same small home office. Is it relevant that I only bother heating this one room in the house during the workday?

Feeling like your work-in-pajamas lifestyle has gone a little too far. Forgetting social formalities?

It is 12:30 on a Saturday afternoon, I'm at work, in school, and blogging all at once, and yes, I'm in my pajamas. It's what we call "living the dream."

Not brushing your teeth until early afternoon? Forgetting to shave?

Just regressing to the Lake County mean. I fit in better at Walmart this way.

All signs that you may be suffering from homepreneuritosis.

This [fictitious] condition afflicts millions of entrepreneurs working from their dining room tables, extra bedrooms, basements and, of course, the gold standard - garages - each year.

Extra bedroom, in my case. But you go too far when you lump me in with the entrepreneurs. I'm a decently-compensated wage-slave doing the kind of work that machines just can't. But, with my help, we will improve those machines!

That's why it's important to FORCE YOURSELF to get out and meet up with other people. Yes, when the homepreneuritosis condition is at its worst, the very idea of being out and mingling and networking can be altogether objectionable, but you must work past that feeling. Take that first step out the front door and back into the world.

If you'd seen the world outside my front door, you wouldn't say that.

(Via Instapundit, of course.)