dursi covid remote work tools
55:52 of “Adventures in Data Corruption”, Oxide and Friends
debugging is also really amenable to remote work.
we talked about how
[we’re recording our meetings as well]
the fact that you can have people be in the conversation, at zero cost to the conversation. Whereas in an office, like 30 people gathering around one person.
“There’s so much value… Keith join late but was able to catch up by watching part of the recording.”
"The ergonomics of it… while I’m watching you type into the shared screen, I can [pursue weird direction which ended up being the resolution].
"People can just quietly I’m just going to go if and explore this idea I’ve got
Stackexchange in their heyday was fully remote - discussed setting up colocation using multiple shufts remotely activating servers
There were so like, I thought it was true hybrid local remote, but there were so many things that we did post pandemic that really truly enabled remote work that we were not doing before that. That when I look back at the before times, like, it was a lot harder to be a remote worker. And the remote experience at Joyant is very different than the remote experience at Oxide.
so since you guys were talking about, gestures on the camera and sidebar chat, I just wanna mention that, for for, people like me, blind people, dropping emoji in the chat would be more accessible than than doing gestures on camera.
I’ll tell you, though. One one thing Microsoft Teams has done lately that that is, really useful for for people like me is, if someone is sharing a PowerPoint slide deck during the meeting, they can now run the PowerPoint slide deck directly within Teams, and it transmits the actual semantic contents of the slides. So it’s accessible on the viewing end as opposed to screen sharing
And we actually have someone who’s sort of like our technical writer of of record in our team, and they will usually go mine important meetings that we have for documentation we wanna create out of a meeting and using we use leverage very heavily leverage meeting transcripts to create documentation for things that we’re doing.
So that that that’s where I I to be honest, I almost feel like the future of remote work, you know, going to the title of this isn’t around the meeting at all or or anything like that. It’s how we we almost like like, potentially, it’s it’s all about asynchronous communication becomes the primary and how do you become more effective at asynchronous communication.
Our request for discussion process, RFPs, definitely inspired by IETF RFCs, inspired by the RFT process that we developed at Joyant. But we believe really emphatically, arguably to a fault, in writing down ideas and not deciding things in meetings.