Links from anywhere #4
In the last Links from Anywhere, I mistakenly credited @wightman instead of @beaver_claw. Sorry, Jed. My meagre defence is that they did post back-to-back in the same chat thread.
Some links for this week:
🫤 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’: I cannot agree with this statement on its own but there is one point that I believe is true. Altman said, “I feel pretty strongly that startups need a lot of in-person time, and the more fragile and nuanced and uncertain a set of ideas are, the more time you need together in person.”
🥼 Research: Where Managers and Employees Disagree About Remote Work. “Survey research suggests that managers and employees see remote work very differently. Managers are more likely to say it harms productivity, while employees are more likely to say it helps. The difference may be commuting…”
😹 …but that’s what meetings are for.
📌🪩 A generations-old game makes a comeback. Nothing to do with distributed teams or remote/hybrid work except that I continue to work on convincing my wife that my home office setup should include a pinball machine.
- Derek