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@photomatt If you find it odd that most founders prefer to have people in one place, why not try asking some why?
@photomatt Maybe they're not all simply stupid. Maybe distributed teams work better for some products than others.
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@paulg@photomatt when you imagine the future of work, particularly in technology, is it a bunch of people in a physical room? Is it? -
@paulg@photomatt for reference I always viewed Stack Overflow as a tool for a developer in Brazil to work with a developer in New Jersey - Show replies
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@paulg I know that when I was younger, Automattic newer, every mentor / investor I met said distributed work wouldn't scale. -
@photomatt@paulg open source in particular provides a beneficial host culture for distributed teams / perhaps that is part of it?
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@paulg I wouldn't say anyone is stupid. :) Just that the environment has changed since many of these orthodoxies were created. -
@photomatt@paulg have humans changed since then?
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Distributed teams work well for collaboration products, but seriously it depends on how you invest in making it work
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@paulg@photomatt Opensource was built by distributed teams. Passionate team members with good comm tools > Centralized locationThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg also it's hard to separate the root vs surface causes of why the greatest tech companies were successful. Pattern recognition. -
@photomatt@paulg pattern recognition + timing + preparedness
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