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This does seem to imply a new heuristic - ideate in-person, but make decisions over tele-conference. It will be interesting to see what telepresence tech can

• sho_hn 4y ago
  > This does seem to imply a new heuristic - ideate in-person, but make decisions over tele-conference. This is more or less consciously what we ended up doing in remote-first companies I've worked at. Work remotely, but gather twice a year for at least a week to reflect, bond and gather/develop the ideas we'd take into the next interval. At one of them we did this for close to a decade, with 20-30 people living all over the planet. I'd say overall this works, and certainly has generated a string of fond memories ("do you remember the one when we came up with ...") for many involved as well. The point of coming together is not so much to get intense work done, and more to discuss and make plans and see what happens. It's also how we roll in the KDE open source community with the annual conf and the irregular sprints and project-specific gatherings. At my current company, we were 200 in a building designed for 250 at the start of the pandemic - and now we're up to 800 people, still with the same building. We effectively ended up remote-first by logistical necessity, but we use the office for workshops and some cross-functional meetings (we're also building a large new campus for thousands, though).