Leonid Bugaev

Github now allows you to set a successor who will be able to manage your repositories in case of your death. It is a much-needed feature, in times when we depend on a lot of 3rd party libraries. I Will enable it for my account, and you do too... https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-user-accounts-repositories …

Unix pipelines are still one of the most simple and wonderful architecture decisions for me. I use it as inspiration at all my projects, and even whole GoReplay architecture inspired by them. https://prithu.xyz/posts/unix-pipeline/ …

Unless you will accept how people are diverse and how to use this to understand them better, you will not be able to build a successful career in the modern distributed world.

Another interesting thing about working with Muslims is that interest on loans is forbidden by Islam. In our company, we have a person, who opted out from directly working with any Bank related clients. And we gave him this option.

Religion is another interesting side of the multinational teams. For example, if you are working with the Muslim, when you schedule a meeting, you should consider his time for regular prayer. Or when Ramazan starts his day schedule can completely change.

I had a funny story with my coworkers in Sales, when we attended a meeting with a Russian company. After the call, he thought that he screw it up, because no matter how he tried, everyone on the call had a poker face. Afterward, we found that they were extremely happy.

Smile is trickier than you think, and treated completely differently by western and easter cultures. In western cultures, like the UK, a smile is an essential part of the conversation. In eastern cultures, especially post USSR, no one smiling for granted.

Physical meetings are even trickier. When you meet people you never really know which language you going to speak. When I’m with the person who speaks my native language, we use it, but whenever someone else tries to join your group you have to switch to the English.

It takes a lot of effort for your brain to switch between multiple languages. So far my preferred way is to use English everywhere for the chat, even private, and native language during 1-1 longer video meetings.

I’m not a native English speaker, and imagine I have a coworker whose native language same as mine. Which language we will use to communicate in person? This question can be trickier then you can imagine.