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In the last year of remote work I have not missed whiteboard collaboration at all. My team just got better at writing docs and generating diagrams with dedicat
by mulmen 6y ago
In the last year of remote work I have not missed whiteboard collaboration at all. My team just got better at writing docs and generating diagrams with dedicated tooling.
- volta83 6y agoI use it every day. A 10 second drawings saves me 5 minutes of talking every time. Colleagues that don't have this capability at home give the impression that they are wasting everbody elses time, to the point that they draw on a piece of paper and hang it infront of the camera instead. Also, this pretty much completely disqualifies them for doing things like, e.g., "interviews", which restricts their career development.
- mulmen 6y agoYeah we just have a totally different workflow where you provide a doc and that has all the material already included. There’s no adhoc sketching stuff because we think that through before taking anyone’s time. It’s just a different way of working. But it pays dividends when you have people spread across time zones. Plus none of it is throw-away work. The docs are there for anyone to reference any time in the future.
- volta83 6y agoWe develop high perf spatial data structures for computational geometry, so being able to draw is kind of critical. But I understand that not all jobs need this. People doing design or architecture probably draw more than we do, and people doing english to french translations probably draw less.