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It's amazing to me how many people and companies who have been forced to work remotely for the first time in their lives are suddenly the experts on it.

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I've been waiting for Marissa Mayer to launch a remote working technology startup, since March.

Although I appreciate where your comment is coming from, namely her tenure at yahoo and probably tongue in cheek, people can change their views for genuine reasons and should, mostly, be admired when they do so. It takes courage to publicly admit that you are wrong

Nah, aligning with the trends is anything but courageous and admirable. Especially if one was very vocal about opposing them. Double especially if the move is out of one's control.

It's great when people admit when they have changed their mind and the reasons why - but a lot of "political" people simply change and never admit they recommended anything else.

Or, as in TFA, they say that circumstances have changes and their their previous position was 100% definitely right at the time.

That's completely reasonable, but some people won't highlight that they have changed their mind as they think it makes them look weak.

If you have some valuable knowledge about remote work, please post it. But I don’t see any reason to demand that everyone should be an expert on remote work before we allow them to share their experiences and thoughts about this thing that we’ve been going through.

I've been working remotely full-time since 2014, and now I run a company and employ people (mostly programmers) around the world. We've been remote since day zero.

Any valuable knowledge I have about remote work would be eclipsed by the Remote book written by the Basecamp guys, so that's what I'd recommend people read. What I'm reacting to here is the hubris of some people (especially on my LinkedIn feed) to not just share experience but actually give advice on a topic they're completely new to.

I think the point is, that these type of articles are like fairy tales. I wouldn't be surprised if Quora would be the first to announce an in-office only policy when the pandemic is over. If it turns out so, then the whole interview and the post is worthless. That's why time and long experience/exposure matters.

You have to jump on the hype train to get all that juicy traffic to your "think pieces"

i think the views from a stalwart are actually kind of helpful.

imho "experts" on this probably arent going to be saying much unique or helpful for others in the industry who previously have been so resistent to remote work.

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