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Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by p0w3n3d »

softwaredoug wrote: post #173

There is a kind of leader that's threatened when they don't control communication. In these cases, random thought bombs on slack feel like chaos. Like people are going in random directions not rowing together. I don't think this is true of course -- people are just sharing inspiration and ideas. But in some places / cultures just rambling on slack can be dangerous and put a target on your back. You can be labeled as…

Ah, yes. The control freak. However control freaking has more problems than this. I'm thinking bus factor = 1 unless team tries to solve problems for themselves but hiding it from the control freak

Also crawling exhaustion and burnout, later coming frustration and unrealisticly high standards for oneself and others. Hmm, why am I starting to describe myself...

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by andrewrn »

atomicnumber3 wrote: post #297
andrewrn wrote: post #236

I really cannot imagine working remote full-time, it sounds so depressing. We already don't go to church or bars or movies or clubs anymore. Work is one of the few remaining places to interact with other humans. I'd be interested in trying this if I was remote, but I still just prefer in-person work. I worked an in-person job recently at an oil company where we had no regular meetings (I was doing absolute grunt draf…

People are different. I have been fully remote for 5 years after 5 in-office, so I've seen both. In office was fine while I didn't have kids. Now I have kids and my life would be in shambles if I had to commute. I also live in BFE and would make probably 70% less if I worked locally. I grew up on the internet in the early 2000s. So I'm well used to getting lots of my social interaction from text chats, and I prefer i…

I can’t relate to text chat sufficing for face-to-face interaction. All the micro nonverbal communication seems important to me.

But fair enough, everyone’s different. Having a family would certainly make wfh easier.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by bravetraveler »

nuancebydefault wrote: post #306
unethical_ban wrote: post #215

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Off topic, 10 years ago, I hated confluence and wanted my team to be able to continue using DokuWiki. Now, I've consulted at places that use Microsoft Teams file shares for their "documentation", and I feel like I'm back in 2005. Confluence would be a dream.

Confluence as well as other atlassian tools have evolved quite a bit, in the good direction (minus the ai fluff)

uBlock Origin filters have worked nicely to remove the AI noise

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by dbetteridge »

wonderwonder wrote: post #397
wting wrote: post #378

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> I know that concentrating knowledge / ownership at a person is not always good, but perhaps a better way to manage this is to... hire someone else who is competent or make other people more vocal. > And yes, I don't like managers trying to shape communication patterns. I'm a manager who shaped communication patterns (e.g. default conversations to a public channel) because we're solving different problems. By moving…

"WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. YOUR UNIQUENESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR COLLECTIVE. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

It does feel a bit like that fighting institutional pressure to "optimise efficiency" and "reduce individual dependence".

Your uniqueness is not tolerated, assimilate to the collective, follow the processes given to you, don't think individually.

Except when solving these problems, they require creativity, be creative. BUT ONLY HERE

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by mlinhares »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #351
jamesog wrote: post #347

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> I collaborated a lot with a collage - James (Jog). I asked him loads of questions, from "how to login to a server", via "what is anycast" to "tell me how you mitigated this one, give me precise instructions you've run". Hi, that's me! There were definitely a lot of fun conversations. I liked that a culture of internal blogs became a thing too. It was good to see people brain dumping their experiments and findings.…

Always funny to see these sort of missed connections on HN. > internal blogs In my personal experience the problem is the total lack of writing culture at non-premiere companies. Put differently: unless you’re working on a great team at a great organization roughly 90% of people cannot be expected to write/read well as a component of technical collaboration. Any thoughts on that? I may just be too cynical

But the non-premiere companies also do not hire the talent that is capable of doing this (and that might be fine, they might not really need that specific talent).

I've many friends that worked most of their carreers in small to medium companies where this wasn't a thing and stuff mostly worked. We can't expect to replicate the high end tech experience everywhere, I doubt it is a good investment of resources.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by andrewrn »

Etheryte wrote: post #242
andrewrn wrote: post #236

I really cannot imagine working remote full-time, it sounds so depressing. We already don't go to church or bars or movies or clubs anymore. Work is one of the few remaining places to interact with other humans. I'd be interested in trying this if I was remote, but I still just prefer in-person work. I worked an in-person job recently at an oil company where we had no regular meetings (I was doing absolute grunt draf…

I mean, no one is stopping you from going to church or bars or movies or clubs. All of those things are still there if that's what you fancy.

Did I claim that someone was stopping me from doing those things? My point was that traditional gathering formats that are conducive to community-forming are diminishing. It's not a matter of an individual choosing not to participate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by andrewrn »

mystifyingpoi wrote: post #263
andrewrn wrote: post #236

I really cannot imagine working remote full-time, it sounds so depressing. We already don't go to church or bars or movies or clubs anymore. Work is one of the few remaining places to interact with other humans. I'd be interested in trying this if I was remote, but I still just prefer in-person work. I worked an in-person job recently at an oil company where we had no regular meetings (I was doing absolute grunt draf…

People are different. I worked around 1.5 years on fully remote gig and it was the best time of my life ever. Wake up at 6, start working, finish at 2 pm. In the middle do all the house chores that I could squeeze in (cleaning, shopping, eating, even chopped few cubic meters of wood in span of weeks) while keeping my output the same as other teammates (it wasn't particularly hard, either). Each day I was out at 2 pm,…

Glad it works for you.

I'd be so curious about the demographics on these comments. For context, I am a single person in my 20's, living alone. If I had a family, I can easily see WFH being a whole lot better.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by therealdrag0 »

ogou wrote: post #337
therealdrag0 wrote: post #336

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Huh? Thats just not true. We have channels for gamers, pets, golf, home automation, “lounge”, “memes”, etc. I’ve been at this company 4 years and can only thing if 3 times I’ve seen a dispute, and even that was very civil. It’s really not hard to leave politics at home.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27032627

So a tiny company of 60 people had immature employees, so what?

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

andrewrn wrote: post #407
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #263

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People are different. I worked around 1.5 years on fully remote gig and it was the best time of my life ever. Wake up at 6, start working, finish at 2 pm. In the middle do all the house chores that I could squeeze in (cleaning, shopping, eating, even chopped few cubic meters of wood in span of weeks) while keeping my output the same as other teammates (it wasn't particularly hard, either). Each day I was out at 2 pm,…

Glad it works for you. I'd be so curious about the demographics on these comments. For context, I am a single person in my 20's, living alone. If I had a family, I can easily see WFH being a whole lot better.

Sure. At that time, I was in my early 20s and I was single. Currently married and one small kiddo. And I'd argue that I'd easily take 1/3 pay cut to go back from my current hybrid job to full remote right now. Days are so much easier for both of us when I'm working from home. Being able to quickly go afk and change a diaper, or take care of the kiddo for 10 mins when mommy takes a dump (real life heh) is incredibly valuable.

Or at least that's my point of view.

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