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No reason remote work can’t be spontaneous, even easier IMO because you don’t have to herd cats into the same space. A ping on chat and within 1 min multiple pe
by ghthor 3y ago
No reason remote work can’t be spontaneous, even easier IMO because you don’t have to herd cats into the same space. A ping on chat and within 1 min multiple people can be in the discussion without even having to move.
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- LoganDark 3y agoThere's still benefits to having real bodies in the same physical space, a closer analogue would be closer to a video call. But that's far less spontaneous.
- michaelt 3y agoMaybe? Personally I've never used a virtual whiteboard that was any good. I blame the much smaller area and the mouse input. Of course if your ways of working mean you can collaborate without any need for whiteboards, I guess things could be fine. Clearly, things like the Linux kernel get along OK without such collaboration.
- seb1204 3y agoAre In person dev conferences (again) still a thing? Meeting in person once for an intensive time can go a long way in the following remote work time.
- ghthor 3y agoYou’ll probably want to translate your great idea to a digital diagram at some point for the design doc or documentation. Might as well start there, then you have less work to do later.
- basisword 3y ago>> A ping on chat and within 1 min multiple people can be in the discussion without even having to move. Have you ever tried this? Half of them won’t reply to you for the next x hours, others will have meetings, and others will say not right now I’m swamped. Most of those excuses are because they can’t be bothered joining a “quick call” with you, not because they’re actually busy.
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- hellisothers 3y ago100% opposite experience here, but you know the saying, if one person won’t accept your invite it’s probably them, if nobody will accept your invites…
- imetatroll 3y agoBut if they had meetings in the office they wouldn't be participating anyway so that isn't relevant. I guess it is a difference in employees but I've never had people reject a huddle outright. They might need a bit of time but it always happens.
- jitl 3y agoWhat they mean by spontaneous is things happing by chance. You pinging someone isn’t happening by chance, you’re choosing to do that - to make contact. Compare to a physical office, where by chance you’re in the cafe at the same time as someone else who you usually don’t think about. But somehow you start talking and a good idea comes from it. I’m remote and have no problem pinging anyone on slack from my teammate to the CEO — but when I visit the office I always find connections & ideas I would never find sitting at home.
- ghthor 3y agoYou can also just start talking in chat, even in group channels; doesn’t have to be DMs. And the you’ll have a log of your good ideas. And likely someone random will jump into your discussion.
- jitl 3y agoThere's a difference between the random chance dynamic I'm talking about, and sending a message to a slack channel.