I don’t know about the rest of you, but for me the last several months have been really weird. At the start of March, my daily routine stopped being one that involved getting up, riding my bike to my office, talking to my coworkers, and hopefully getting some technical work done. Instead, I started walking into my garage every morning, sitting at my workbench-become-desk, and interacting with all of my coworkers via WebEx, Skype, BlueJeans, Zoom, and just about any other online meeting package that’s ever been invented. While being socially distant has resulted in fewer interruptions, and I feel like I have gotten a lot more done each day, it’s also made it clear that projects frequently require socialization to make progress. It turns out that most technical projects benefit from some level of social closeness.
