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The importance of offtopic

ly days 🔗 I’ve been working remotely for over a decade – way before it was cool. My first big job in the industry had me as one of two people in Warsaw, with the rest of the team in Oslo.

There was an IRC channel after all, where we worked of course, but also chit-chatted about random bullshit – and where I learned enough about Star Trek to feel obliged to watch it to understand all the jokes. Even a thing where a robot would randomly pick someone from the company to give you a one-on-one simulated Watercooler discussion, though frankly I do not think that worked very well in practice. Companies I’ve worked at before always had the bosses and managers post as much memes and bullshit as everyone, if not more – which is a natural extension of higher-ups spending more time socializing in the kitchen than anyone else, and one could argue that that’s their job – to know what’s up in the ranks, how people feel, and making them productive.

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