I came to this thread ready to say that this guy is a moron (and I'm still withholding judgement on that[1]) but there is a fundamental truth here: you have to

I came to this thread ready to say that this guy is a moron (and I'm still withholding judgement on that[1]) but there is a fundamental truth here: you have to be good at the tooling. Meet/Zoom/Mmhmm whatever; they aren't good enough for random collections of people to just like, collaborate or whatever, as if they were in the same room. However, these tools are way beyond good enough for some collections of people to perform at a far higher level then they could if they had to waste the time required to colocate. I think that if your team can't work effectively from different locations and across different time zones, then... you might still be able to do some shit and ship some product and make some money! And that's awesome! But, for most forms of software engineering, that's probably an indicator that you aren't a top tier/world class/very good team. Because the best teams can do that, even at industry-leading companies like Apple where they try to pretend that they don't let people do that. And the evidence is most of the great software that shipped 2020-2022. [1]: I mean, he says a lot of other really weird shit, like https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1654351664319709185?s=20 https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1654351664319709185?s...