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I think so too. This is what I vented on Twitter a few weeks ago (pardon the tone -- in my defense, I don't have many followers): "You keep hearing about the hybrid model, but that is just corporate speak to lure you back into office. It is just a matter of time before they declare that they tried hybrid and it did not work, so it's going to be office only from now on."

https://twitter.com/tapanjk/status/1510491733640896515

Is learning to ride a bicycle hard? Of course. But once you learn to ride a bicycle, the benefits are immense. That is why people learn to ride a bike in spite of the initial difficulty. They know that the payoff is much larger in the end.

If you can figure out how to be effective in a remote setup, you will not only learn how to work remotely, but also how to communicate well in a team. Physical distance should and will become a nonissue for a software development team.

Hi Abc,

Else:

Hello Mr. Abc,

Perhaps I am missing the point because I do not live in the western world. I have observed my people who moved to the west are into large screen TVs, but I never understood the lure.

- Hire the Right Builders ("people who like to invent, who look at customer experiences, dissect what doesn't work well about them, and seek to reinvent them")

- Organize Builders into Teams That Are as Separable and Autonomous as Possible ("single-threaded teams will know their customers' needs better")

- Give Teams the Right Tools and Permission to Move Fast

- You Need Blind Faith, But No False Hope ("feedback loops" and "product development process of working backwards from the customer")

- Define a Minimum Loveable Product (MLP), and Be Willing to Iterate Fast ("figuring out where to draw the line for launch")

- Adopt a Long-term Orientation ("you have to be in it for the long-haul or you’ll give up too quickly")

- Brace Yourself for Failure ("if you invent a lot, you will fail more often than you wish")

- Terminal based Hacker News reader for the lurker [1]

- Terminal based Google News reader [2]

[1]: https://github.com/tapank/hn

[2]: https://github.com/tapank/gnews

You decide: https://karecha.com

I do not track traffic to the site. The site exists for me to believe that I am talking to the world. That feels good.

This is likely the reason you love coming into the office. The fresh air, greenery in the park, and the walk that gets your blood flowing ... emotionally you _should_ be in a better place. Compare this with someone who commutes 30 minutes in traffic, and they will arrive at the office in a worse emotional state.

It took me a long time to realize that in addition to the team culture, my happiness/satisfaction at work depends a lot on my commute and the ambiance at the office (quiet and comfortable is good; noisy and cramped are bad).

Thank you for the recommendation! I am looking forward to reading the book. It is good know that someone who started off their education assuming they cannot do well in STEM subjects, can actually pick up the skills much later in their carrier, is refreshing. I belong to the camp that I did well in STEM subjects through formal education but then lost touch with math later on. Am looking forward to regaining this skill.

Edit:

There is a good reason for project/product managers to prefer Jira and similar products. They want to be able to create dashboards with some very complex queries for reporting, and also features such as moving an Issue from one project to another, etc. In short, it provides management features that PMs rely on for reporting progress up the management chain.

[1]: https://omnition.io/

Can someone please explain this?

This is what caught my attention. We need more of this in every field. Perhaps, that is already the case, but from what I can see, it looks like it can get better.

This struck me as the most illuminating part of the article. I know this may not sound like an insight to many here, but to me, it was, because I never thought of 5G as the cutter of the last mile wires of the networked world.

Not the onion.

Preferences > Privacy and Security > Strict

This is mostly due to the airlines trying to grow by providing cheaper tickets in a price sensitive market. However, this is a race to the bottom.

This caught my eye in the comments at the bottom of the article. It answers the question that we all asked (sometimes of ourselves): Why would anyone pee in the pool?

I think the power comes from knowing something -- _anything_ -- well.

I feel the same about vim and common unix tools (bash, sed, awk etc). If you can use these effectively, these can be very effective productivity tools. The learning curve is steep, just like learning to ride a bicycle, but once you do, it is difficult to imagine life without it.