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Great article. I do all my work entirely from home and up until this point I couldn't pinpoint precisely what was missing. The article uses an excellent phase I

by osipov 19y ago

Great article. I do all my work entirely from home and up until this point I couldn't pinpoint precisely what was missing. The article uses an excellent phase I was trying to articulate: "casual serendipity". Effectively, this is about casually describing your work to random people and finding serendipitous connections to other projects or learning unexpected, but relevant information.

michaelneale 19y ago
I find the same. But I am close into a large city, so attending multiple user groups/conferences (even in subjects/technologies I am not currently involved with) seems to help alleviate that. Plus you tend to meet people at those places of a higher "quality" (or some measure) then the average office drone in a regular business.
jrockway 19y ago
> Effectively, this is about casually describing your work to random people and finding serendipitous connections to other projects or learning unexpected, but relevant information. I work at home, but I find that IRC is a fine outlet for this. There is a much bigger pool of people to draw from when you're talking about a worldwide network as opposed to a few people in your office. The real problem is that when you work at home, it's very easy to go for days (or weeks) without talking to anyone in real life. It's not bad in general (communicating on the Internet is not that different from communicating face to face), but it is difficult to meet girls :) (To be fair, it was like that when I worked at a big company too. I'm 22, everyone else was in their 40s. I would rather be alone than to have to talk to those people :)
- yters 19y ago
  I wonder if US culture's attitude towards introverts is going to change now that we're starting to be the new entrepreneur. I think it's been biased towards extroverts because people consider extroversion to be necessary for making the US great, i.e. cowboys. Not that cowboys were all that extroverted anyways.
  - yters 19y ago
    Are most of the entrepreneurs here not introverts? I remember seeing a personality type question, and quite a few were Is of one sort or another.
baha_man 19y ago
Great article - seconded. I also liked the fact that it wasn't split across six pages, and reader comments were kept separate from the article itself.

by osipov 19y ago

michaelneale 19y ago

I find the same. But I am close into a large city, so attending multiple user groups/conferences (even in subjects/technologies I am not currently involved with) seems to help alleviate that. Plus you tend to meet people at those places of a higher "quality" (or some measure) then the average office drone in a regular business.

jrockway 19y ago

> Effectively, this is about casually describing your work to random people and finding serendipitous connections to other projects or learning unexpected, but relevant information. I work at home, but I find that IRC is a fine outlet for this. There is a much bigger pool of people to draw from when you're talking about a worldwide network as opposed to a few people in your office. The real problem is that when you work at home, it's very easy to go for days (or weeks) without talking to anyone in real life. It's not bad in general (communicating on the Internet is not that different from communicating face to face), but it is difficult to meet girls :) (To be fair, it was like that when I worked at a big company too. I'm 22, everyone else was in their 40s. I would rather be alone than to have to talk to those people :)

yters 19y ago
I wonder if US culture's attitude towards introverts is going to change now that we're starting to be the new entrepreneur. I think it's been biased towards extroverts because people consider extroversion to be necessary for making the US great, i.e. cowboys. Not that cowboys were all that extroverted anyways.
- yters 19y ago
  Are most of the entrepreneurs here not introverts? I remember seeing a personality type question, and quite a few were Is of one sort or another.

baha_man 19y ago

Great article - seconded. I also liked the fact that it wasn't split across six pages, and reader comments were kept separate from the article itself.