Remote work skills today look like being online in my youth

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Slack is a better IRC, messaging apps work a lot like AIM and ICQ did back in the day. In the early 2000s, if I needed to talk to more-experienced developers or managers, I wrote an email or walked over to their office/cubicle to try and catch them for a quick chat. A lot of that is leadership determinism (i.e., I have the agency to set and model the structure of our work). ↩ • Thinking back, cubicles were not great or cool, but they did beat desks in an open layout on most axes. Larger pair cubicles with someone you like to collaborate with were pretty good, all things considered.

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