Don’t let anyone tell you that press events are glamorous. I stayed in a hostel for the majority of Gamescom, and was promptly shouted at by an aggravated French man named Gérard for waking him up too early (his fault for FaceTiming until 3am).
In many ways, a hostel is sort of similar to a college dorm — shared rooms with very limited space for peripherals. Your tech choices have to be both ultraportable and space conscious, while guaranteeing the best ergonomics wherever you choose to work. If you don’t have these, you’ll never get any work done, and given my frosty relationship with Gérard, I was nervous.
