Alberto Brandolini

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🛫 Copenhagen, Sept 29-30 @gotocon.com

🚆 Berlin, Oct 20-21 #KanDDDinsky

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Now I’ll have a 50% probability to say it wrong for the rest of my life…

@malk-zameth.bsky.social are you up for dinner?

I guess this calls for a pronunciation Kata. 😂

But if I had the power to influence bosses with a blog post, everybody would be making homemade pasta in the office daily. 🍝

This topic became radioactive. And that’s one reason I am talking about it. It’s something we haven’t completely understood but that became impossible to discuss.

FOR THE LAST TIME: I am not advocating Return To Office.

Still not what I am saying. And part of the problem, too. Productivity is about doing, and remote can be better in that.

Honestly, I wouldn’t even start talking about remote if I hadn’t found something that wasn’t covered by the standard polarized bullshit.

I won’t bore you any more. 😁 Thanks for the feedback and for the rescue.
Have a nice weekend!

I still think remote is fooling us. It fooled me. The nastiest way is that it creates bubble with less visibility of the organization around us. Too easy to filter signals and to build a simpler bubble. And this is very hard to reverse.

Layoffs and threats for coming back to office are abuse. That’s clearly not the way. But if you built a safe and happy haven:
1. Good for you! There are happy places.
2. Part of my intention was to send a warning. Less observability can mean “surprise” layoffs.

Social media conversation are the worst case. But empathy doesn’t happen spontaneously in remote conversation. It becomes a deliberate effort in a limited brain energy scenario.
This doesn’t happen for free.

🤗 feels better. Thanks. Let me say some things better. When I said “Empathy is not granted” I was referring also to a system problem. I think you wouldn’t have started this way in person, and wouldn’t have responded in a same way. One way or another we would have found a way. A smile or a smirk.

😒 How can you say I am aggressive without reading it? How can you say I am doing it for money? I am not.

Yet - even in the happiest bubbles - there is a price to pay in terms of reduced visibility. Higher chances of blind spots.

I don’t know what’s behind the blind spots in your organizations. But I know that reduced observabilty in both directions (employee <-> organization) is a risk.

I am sorry, but empathy is not granted. Especially when the conversation starts with a personal attack from an unknown Bluesky handle. 😒 Yet I am doing a deliberate effort to dig something useful out of it.

I get that I touched a nerve, and that remote is working great for you. Happy to hear that.

Again: bubbles, you don’t see mine and are making (wrong) assumptions. And I don’t see yours. Which is making talking about the common space harder.

I wouldn’t care about it if this wasn’t a core ingredient of the issue: “Remote work is making it harder to talk about remote work”

I wish I found only one core problem. 😁 but this is clearly there.

It’s not you. It’s physiology. And bubbles too. One bubble is “having tasted what real collaboration feels like”. But other bubbles exists in the other direction. I am trying to get past the bubbles and see the cumulative effect of weak signals.

Which is not what I wrote. Implicitly confirming that 1) the lower quality of remote interactions can have negative consequences. 2) talking about this stuff rationally is hard.

I know. Fixing it later. :-(

That’s great. I know there are some happy bubbles. One post is supposed to be about them. 😉

Ouch. I thought I deleted it. The magic of cross-posting. 😳

Remote work is fooling you ...and making your organisation dumber

I finally started writing my thoughts in the current state of remote work.

It’s messing up with our organization’s ability to evolve. In nasty ways.

ziobrando.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

Don’t shoot the messenger! 😂

I don’t see Sourcesafe, or the evil Changeman! Or the vicious duo “Zip & Naming Convention” 😁

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A couple of folks on the thread have asked about environmental impact. It is not my area of expertise. I don't think that my goto person on environmental issues in software engineering, Anne Currie, is on BSky (see www.strategically.green/us. )

And maybe creating one more connection to "the need to convince somebody" instead of just grabbing a marker, and/or opening the IDE.

Now, the new ingredient is remote, slowly building structures and routines that are harder to break and good examples harder to follow.
No impromptu modelling sessions in the hallway, or empty mornings in Google Calendar.

Yep, I saw a pendulum swing in the past years as well. 2005-2010 attempts to do DDD were smothered by bad planning. Agile was a more urgent matter, then.
Later, some (few) companies created space for innovation, and interesting things could happen.