<story><title>Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel</title><url>https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/31/footwork-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCompost</author><text>Things like this is the reason I don&amp;#x27;t work from home. Those little moments of contact.</text></item><item><author>120bits</author><text>During my early days in my tech career. I joined a small tech firm that did linux kernel programming and embedded stuff. It was my first job out of college and I was really excited. My mentor was a 50+ guy whom I walked everyday from work to back my home. It didn&amp;#x27;t started out like that, we would leave work around different times and one day it was raining, so we waited and then it became sort of habit. I learned so much about programming and life in general. Made me a better programmer for sure. I&amp;#x27;m always grateful!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattacular</author><text>With remote, everything has to be highly intentional. Schedule a meeting means having a pre-defined time, often there is a specific topic of conversation in mind, people diligently stick to that topic as much as possible to respect everyone&amp;#x27;s calendar etc. Collaboration tends to play out within these extremely narrow parameters that are unnatural to hundreds of years of human social  development. It doesn&amp;#x27;t help that the best substitute - video conferencing - still strips a lot of crucial information that you&amp;#x27;re used to getting in person for modulating conversation (eg. ability to scan body language and facial expressions of people in the room as you talk) and find moments to interject.</text></comment>
<story><title>Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel</title><url>https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/31/footwork-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCompost</author><text>Things like this is the reason I don&amp;#x27;t work from home. Those little moments of contact.</text></item><item><author>120bits</author><text>During my early days in my tech career. I joined a small tech firm that did linux kernel programming and embedded stuff. It was my first job out of college and I was really excited. My mentor was a 50+ guy whom I walked everyday from work to back my home. It didn&amp;#x27;t started out like that, we would leave work around different times and one day it was raining, so we waited and then it became sort of habit. I learned so much about programming and life in general. Made me a better programmer for sure. I&amp;#x27;m always grateful!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khazhoux</author><text>I like WFH.  My company allows unrestricted WFH.&lt;p&gt;But lately I&amp;#x27;ve been going into office and the throughput of technical discussions is just an order of magnitude higher than in video calls or over Slack.&lt;p&gt;I wish this wasn&amp;#x27;t the case.</text></comment>