Truly challenging work approached with a deep passion is best done in direct collaboration with others. There’s no replacement for the energy that you find from

Truly challenging work approached with a deep passion is best done in direct collaboration with others. There’s no replacement for the energy that you find from a desperately hard working team that’s working together in person. I’d estimate that 90% of people aren’t interested in working that hard so remote works just fine. SV has been pumping out money for the last decade so they’ve had to offer cushier environments to attract talent, but now that the free money is drying up I hope that more companies will return to what made SV great in the first place: obsessive work. We’re already seeing the more committed business owners enforcing in-person work, but there’s been strong push back from employees. Only the companies that are truly creating value will be able to entice enough talent to work there, and many companies will falter in the process, but I think it’s good for us all. It’s like a forest fire that creates space for new growth.