A man's office is highly influential on the way he works.  My very first office, working for an advertising agency straight out of college, was a small desk crammed in with the accounting team on an entirely different floor than the rest of my team. I didn't mind, because my desk faced an 8-foot tall window with a great view of the outside. My desk could be a tv tray and I would be fine with it, as long as I have plenty of sunlight.

In the ten years since that first office, I've had many other offices. Sixteen, by my count. Thinking back through them one by one, almost without fail the ones that I've enjoyed the most, and the ones in which I experienced the highest quality of life are the ones that offered the most sunlight. This, of course, culminated in the office I had last winter during our six week stay in Venice.

This past Spring, the hunt began for my seventeenth office. My iMac had a permanent hard drive failure, and rather than fix it just took to roaming around the house in a nomadic fashion with my Macbook Pro, looking for the perfect location from which to do my work. After several months of trial and error, I am please to say that I have found my new office.

Plenty of sunlight, steps away from the kitchen, and an accompanying chair at which Gus can sit to keep me company. The proximity to the booze doesn't hurt, either.

So I think, for the forseeable future, this will be my office. What about you? Where do you do your best work? What qualities go into a good office? Do you need a maximum of space, or is it more about the atmosphere?