I’ve been the principal engineer for my company, remotely for the past 4 years. I’ve never had a problem with it. There are tradeoffs, but just the fact that n

I’ve been the principal engineer for my company, remotely for the past 4 years. I’ve never had a problem with it. There are tradeoffs, but just the fact that nearly every single one of our conversations are documented and searchable is worth it alone. You can’t just walk over to talk to someone anytime the notion strikes you, but you shouldn’t have been doing that anyway. I love to talk, and I love to think out loud. But every time I do that, I’m asking someone else to divert there attention to me. Being remote allows people to turn off the majority of the interruptions and get work done when they need to. And it forces me to spend more time thinking about my communications. Instead of just constantly walking over to people the moment an idea pops into my head.