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a few interesting points here
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john larkin
2024-08-14 18:58:22 UTC
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Martin Rid
2024-08-14 21:03:02 UTC
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john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> Wrote in message:r
Post by john larkin
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/eric-schmidt-google-remote-work-19655216.php
What's 'remote work'? Ove been back in the office since Jun 2020

Cheers
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Bill Sloman
2024-08-15 03:43:20 UTC
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Post by john larkin
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/eric-schmidt-google-remote-work-19655216.php
Not really. Top managers have a bean counter mentality. They expect to
see people working in the places that they are used to see them working.

The one time I was in a quasi-start-up project, the line manager screwed
it up because he decided that design reviews were a waste of time, and
skipped them.

Lot of errors that would have been caught at a design review got
through, and had to be found - slowly and expensively - by
trouble-shooting boards that had been built with built-in errors.

The clown that made the choice hadn't had the painful experience on
getting complicated boards to work that would have given him some
insight into why design reviews were worth doing, even if they cost time
up front, because skipping them cost a lot more time down-stream.
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Jan Panteltje
2024-08-15 06:39:20 UTC
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On a sunny day (Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:58:22 -0700) it happened john larkin
Post by john larkin
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/eric-schmidt-google-remote-work-19655216.php
Yes I did read some comments that 'working from home was bad for innovation'
But many real breakthroughs came from people working at home, or in small working places.
steam engine (kettle), Curie, Edison, radio, Farnsworth, all lone inventors
with maybe a garden shed as lab.

As opposed to Boeing starliner trilion dollar money sink going nowhere,
Elon Musk with X just started a new AI engine that is not censored:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/musks-new-grok-upgrade-allows-x-users-to-create-largely-uncensored-ai-images/
All depends one guy...

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