I firmly believe the opposite. We do better work when we work together. And working on the same project as our colleagues in independent asynchronous intersper

I firmly believe the opposite. We do better work when we work together. And working on the same project as our colleagues in independent asynchronous interspersed bursts doesn't really count as working together. I'm talking about brainstorming approaches, weighing trade-offs, course correcting in real time, triangulating and incorporating other perspectives, etc, etc. This all is extremely difficult to do in scheduled meetings, and is also very difficult if it all has to slowly and disjointedly unfold over slack. Instead of giving up and resigning to a lonely, diminished life of merely interleaved work effort, we need a new class of tools to help us find the same type of serendipitous productivity we used to find at the office, now when we're working remotely. For my team at work, we are trying out this "virtual office"[1] where we start together for stand-up in the morning, and then self organize into whichever various spaces throughout the day, depending on whatever the moment calls for. We're implementing a feature and want feedback from the customer support people? Just have them pop into our project room. Or a product person wants to check in on progress, they just come on by. Time for a 1:1? We break off to our own space. It's so cool that you can always just see where everyone is and what they're up to, rather than having to travel through calendars and coordinate slack/zoom. It's not perfect, but so, so much better than just alternating between meetings and working alone. [1]: https://rehive.tv https://rehive.tv