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In an increasingly disconnected world, I couldn't agree more. Everything now is automated: car service, groceries, shopping. Activities that used to be social a

In an increasingly disconnected world, I couldn't agree more. Everything now is automated: car service, groceries, shopping. Activities that used to be social are no longer social: working in person, meeting in person, socializing in general. We need to get back to building communities, making eye contact, seeing people, engaging in random conversations, getting to know your neighbors. And this includes working in person (albeit not necessarily every day).

bluepizza 3y ago
Community building won't be achieved by putting a bunch of highly paid, extremely bright people holed up inside office space in downtown SF from dusk to dawn. Working in person in such conditions creates dormitory suburbs, traffic jams, and makes the tech community even more insular. If the goal is to go back to building communities, then I would be delighted to agree whenever OpenAI leases a building in downtown Tulsa.
southernplaces7 3y ago
>We need to get back to building communities, making eye contact, seeing people, engaging in random conversations, getting to know your neighbors. And this includes working in person (albeit not necessarily every day). Spare me the absurdly saccharine sentimentality. To take the generally good idea of interaction and building your community, and extend it to cover being herded by the self-serving desires of megacorps seeking in-person office drones is grotesque. I'd happily support people interacting more and forming new relationships, but in a personal, voluntary sense that doesn't involve being crammed into a giant box with others that you didn't pick, hectored by HR scum, and made to work with people who aren't your natural friends on productivity theater or simply things you could have also just done from home, where you choose who you spend time with.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
  hard agree. Can you imagine someone stating the implication with a straight face? "The way to build communities is to force everyone into an office building for 8 hours a day"
legitster 3y ago
Adults are increasingly not connected through social orgs ("Bowling Alone"). Work was often the last place left that grown adults make new friends. We may be entering an age were the concept of an "irl friend" is old-fashioned.

bluepizza 3y ago

Community building won't be achieved by putting a bunch of highly paid, extremely bright people holed up inside office space in downtown SF from dusk to dawn. Working in person in such conditions creates dormitory suburbs, traffic jams, and makes the tech community even more insular. If the goal is to go back to building communities, then I would be delighted to agree whenever OpenAI leases a building in downtown Tulsa.

southernplaces7 3y ago

>We need to get back to building communities, making eye contact, seeing people, engaging in random conversations, getting to know your neighbors. And this includes working in person (albeit not necessarily every day). Spare me the absurdly saccharine sentimentality. To take the generally good idea of interaction and building your community, and extend it to cover being herded by the self-serving desires of megacorps seeking in-person office drones is grotesque. I'd happily support people interacting more and forming new relationships, but in a personal, voluntary sense that doesn't involve being crammed into a giant box with others that you didn't pick, hectored by HR scum, and made to work with people who aren't your natural friends on productivity theater or simply things you could have also just done from home, where you choose who you spend time with.

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
hard agree. Can you imagine someone stating the implication with a straight face? "The way to build communities is to force everyone into an office building for 8 hours a day"

legitster 3y ago

Adults are increasingly not connected through social orgs ("Bowling Alone"). Work was often the last place left that grown adults make new friends. We may be entering an age were the concept of an "irl friend" is old-fashioned.