Pet the cat, own the bathrobe: Linus Torvalds on working from home
Summary
He created a little operating system called Linux, which runs everything in the world except desktops, and Git, which is used by all major software developers everywhere, all while working from his home. Torvalds admits that when he started, "I worried about missing human interaction -- not just talking to people in the office and hallways, but going out to lunch etc. With this information, it creates detailed reports on just how much time you spend on work, social networking, games, online shopping, and so on. For the latter, video conference tools are invaluable because you can pick up on the decision not to listen to you anymore visual cues. I mostly use Zoom (horrible proprietary app, but does have binaries for every Linux distro) or NextCloud Talk... although my server cant stand a huge video load so it only really works one-on-one.
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