An odd feeling: this period seems to be evidence for most people that remote work's The Future, but it's pushing me the other way! In its absence I find myself forcefully drawn to face-to-face collaboration, shared physical studio spaces, long lunchtime walking discussions, etc.
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Have you seen: https://ma.tt/2020/04/five-levels-of-autonomy/ … and the idea of transitioning to asynchronous rather than just remote work?
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Yes, and I think that’s good advice on what management considerations look like at different levels. But it has little to say about how to conduct deeply collaborative and generative work in this setting. What are the concrete nouns and verbs? Have heard no strong stories here.
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I’m with you, 100%. Huge, open plan offices don’t feel like that, though. You didn’t say this, I know. It’s just that there’s a push to 100% remote because 100% in a busy, loud, long-commute ridden office isn’t Exactly pleasant.
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Oh, for real. My experiences with that office type have been truly awful. Very grateful for my studio and cloister+commons experiences. One of my big open office peeves I don’t often see discussed: there’s never enough wall space for incremental work to live!
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I think The Postal Service is a good example of creative work that had this shape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postal_Service …
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How cool! I had no idea. It’s interesting that Such Great Heights seems not to have come together in that way, but rather during the recording sessions.
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I like that best, too: Collaborate as if everyone was a freelancer, and do one's best work in solitude; and then meet up to hang out and discuss things and let ideas flow.
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Having done both for many years, I think Ink & Switch's model strikes a good balance. A fractally distributed mix of synchronous and asynchronous work at varying scales. In person time, when precious, is best reserved for ideation and other forms of intense collaboration.
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Maybe open-source projects? Most of them are remote-only for 30 years. I have very fond memories of the PLD Linux project I worked on in my high school years. The mailing list was a very good experience for both learning and collaborating. We also used Jabber for more p2p collab.
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