Interesting Links for 20-12-2023
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andrewducker- 1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
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- 2. Animation vs. Physics
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- 3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.
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- 4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'
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- 5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.
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- 6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000
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- 7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other
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- 8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video)
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- 9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story
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- 10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater
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- 11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy
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- 12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems
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Date: 2023-12-31 10:27 pm (UTC)Yeah, this article has a little bit of truth, but is mostly misleading. (Which is par for the course when it comes to BI, I've found.)
From experience, my observation is that the point is correct -- teams produce better results if they are co-located. But only if they are truly co-located: that is, the team all share one big office. With permanent desks. And walls around that office, so that you're not distracted by all the other teams.
That is the "pit" environment that I worked in for several years around 2000, and while it was far from a panacea, it was by far the most productive environment I've ever been involved with. I did it at two companies, and we produced absolute magic. High-energy, high-communication, high-collaboration. (And an introvert's nightmare -- the downsides are quite real.)
You'll note, though, that that is nearly the exact opposite of the hotel-desked open-floorplan monstrosity that the bean-counters have now mandated at most companies (and are now imposing RTO mandates for): that is about the most counter-productive environment I can imagine, far worse than what my all-remote team does. (Making heavy use of Slack and Huddles to communicate near-constantly, which works quite nicely.)
I could believe that the main point -- idea-generation tends to centralize a bit more in all-remote teams -- but I doubt that's destiny, just something to be aware of and control for when managing an all-remote group.