chasedehan

Re: the website not the article. It makes me so mad when they set the redirects to make it impossible to navigate away from the page.

I have worked remotely since 2018 and camera-on is certainly the only way to go. Sure, large meetings or recorded sessions mine gets turned off. Cameras on for meeting where you are actually involved is an absolute necessity for trying to make the human connection.

I don’t fully understand the “I won’t turn my camera on” insistence. This is akin to someone in-office bringing a curtain into a conference room saying “don’t look at me”.

I’ve always had that as a question as well. I never remember hearing an alibi or why he wasn’t a suspect.

All this “smart” stuff kills me for basic appliances that no Wi-Fi should ever be needed for.

Example: I am in the process of building a custom home with the ability to purchase whatever we want - when looking at ovens I told the salesperson that I didn’t want anything that has to connect to the internet and the response was that I would need to pick out something lower end because everything “high end” has the connectivity now. Even dishwashers.

True. I’m reading this as an attempt to move into the enterprise auth space (e.g. Okta).

The diamond water paradox is one of the first concepts learned in an introductory Econ class; hopefully not until a “history” class.

I was an Econ professor in the past and this was quite literally the first thing I spoke about in introductory courses. This is the analogy used to describe what the science of economics is, the study of the allocation of scarce resources.

In the US military “scuttlebutt” refers to gossip. So that’s my first reaction to this name.

You should turn Slack off outside business hours! And, remove from your phone. If there is a true emergency, this is why people are on call.

This applies equally to whether wfh or in office.

Wouldn’t these listings with pictures be available somewhere? This doesn’t sound too interesting to take pictures of homes listed for sale.

I know this is about bash, but for zsh, autojump is absolutely amazing.

Love how Haskell makes it into both loved and dreaded languages.

This was the second largest "money left on the table" from an IPO. Jay Ritter's document shows how much AirBNB could have picked up if they had priced their IPO appropriately.

https://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/files/Monnew.pdf

It seems as though you read the entire article and cared enough to make a comment about it. Those are not characteristics of bad writing even if it is disagreed with.

you don't keep getting interrupted because some kids out of 30 in your classroom are being disruptive.

That depends on if you have multiple children and one starts flipping out.

Overall your point is pretty valid though

I would say it's a much higher bar to be hired in as a remote worker vs an existing employee moving to being remote because you already whether the employee is productive

I have to disagree - this is a common premise that you have to see that someone is productive "in person" first.

But seriously, it doesn't matter if someone is remote or in-person, you won't know how productive they actually will be until after they have been hired.

FWIW, I am an engineering manager at a fully remote org and we have had great success with hiring people and getting them productive from day 1.

Notion is wonderful for this. It’s like a wiki with the ease of use of google docs.

My company has basically everything on Notion and any time someone asks a question more than once, it gets added

One screen. One face.

The only way to do it. Remote people will love it but there will probably be push back from in office people.

In order to enforce it there needs to be a champion at higher levels.

I wholly like the idea and is one that I preach and do my utter best to follow.

As context, my company is 95% remote in engineering (I'm a remote manager with some IC responsibilities). Of course, there is some of that internal pressure of making sure I am able to respond to slack in a timely manner. SO, I continually stress to take the deep work breaks and do everything I can to make sure that my team is protected from meetings or other outside requests.

Some explicit things we do as a team. - Have 3 standing meetings, M/W/F for 30 minutes each. We are fluid with these times making sure that they work for everyone and are blocked next to other commitments. We also change the context of the "standups" to incorporate planning/retros, etc - Thursdays are explicit "no meeting days" I fight back hard against anyone who tries to put engineers on my team in a meeting on Thursday. Unfortunately, I as a manager sometimes have no choice but to accept a meeting - Tuesdays are recommended no meeting days - It is ok to turn off slack/email. We all have each others phone numbers and will text if it is something actually urgent, which it almost never is. - Our team is measured by how much we hit our deadlines, which we have input into how those deadlines are set

This is one of the best and most productive work environments I have ever been in -- it would be extremely difficult for me to move back to any office, especially an open one where productivity is proxied by seat time.

Keynes is known as being one of the best Economist writers of all time.

And also: when do we want to decide to use alternatives like decision trees instead -- because despite being less accurate, they can have designers who can be held legally accountable and liable, which can be more important in certain situations?

Decision trees are black box models and are highly accurate. (Think XGBoost, LightGBM, Random Forest, etc)

Not sure what point you are trying to make here.

Not exactly. It is a political problem not an economic one.

There are a large number of people working on inequality.

The two most common fields studying it are: 1) Development 2) Labor Although there are a number of Macro-Economists who have studied the impact of inequality on growth. The reason you may not read about it is that the relationship between inequality and growth is a largely "solved" problem. It is "unfashionable" because of that.

So lots of arbitragers were buying from Best Buy and then selling on amazon. I keep thinking about the front page article a few weeks back about the repackaging from other online sellers.

The fraction who care about performance won’t be interested in a Camry or Corolla.

This is an academic literature review article. The point of these is to basically list all of the relevant papers, not discuss the relative merits of each. They are designed as a starting point for academic research.

Remote people will 100% like each person on their own computer better. No question.

It is the people in the office who will resist.

What you need is someone senior enough to be outspoken and champion it. Luckily for us, a number of people on the executive team are at least partially remote so it was relatively easy to convince to do this.

“Score takes care of itself” By Bill Walsh

While not necessarily a “tech” book, the parallels to leading high performing teams are incredible. For me, this was the book that changed the way I think about leading my team.

One screen, One face

That’s really the only way to do it. Any other situation where there are people looking face to face and someone else on a screen makes it not fully collaborative. People are naturally more inclined when there is someone they can look eye to eye.

My company is ~50% remote (or distributed) and our all hands are with every person on their own laptop. Some people in the office pushed back, but we went this direction with zoom where you can have up to 100 people on the screen at 1 time and it has been incredible. Plus, you don’t have to set up any a/v equipment because the meeting link is in the calendar invite.

Same author of both.

Total Garbage