I work 100% remotely and I live in a big city, and I miss the social interactions I used to have in the office.
If I were a junior in my first year of working, I would decline any remote offer.
In the first few years, I was enthusiastic about remote working. Now, I am envious of people who work in offices or have public-facing jobs because of the social interactions.
Much as I appreciate not having to commute in 9-5 every day at this point (and am mostly retired anyway), I think I'd pretty much have hated just working from home fresh out of school.
That's one reason the in office vs remote debate is challenging. Working in person with others can be beneficial some times for collaboration and socialization but if it requires a dangerous and environmentally devastating car based commute then those benefits are negated. We shouldn't have to commute long distances in cars to get to the office but most communities are designed in a way that makes it impossible to live close to work.
I wouldn't mind working in the office if it meant walking 15 minutes down the street in the morning but around here I would have to make 4x what I make to live near the office and even then it would be a commute because the offices are sequestered in these maze like office parks with no sidewalks.
So on days I'm in the office it's a choice between a 30 minute drive with terrifyingly bad drivers focused on their cell phones while careening around at 80mph or a peaceful but much longer train ride followed by a 20 minute walk crossing streets with those same dangerous drivers.
I guess it's yet another thing where the root problem is the design of our communities.
>I guess it's yet another thing where the root problem is the design of our communities.
Well, I like living in the country and that means working in the city would be a 1 hour+ commute--whether by train or car.
Funnily enough, I actually lived almost next door to where I worked for about ten years near a suburban office park but people I knew would either perform scary manoeuvres to pick me up on the way into the office or I'd want my car to run a lunchtime errand or go somewhere after work so I didn't walk even though it was only 5-10 minutes.
It’s things like this that make me disappointed crypto didn’t find favour as a payment option. I can transfer a million dollars instantly for ~free on (good) blockchains. Vendors aren’t at the mercy of Stripe closing their account. They’re not at the mercy of payment processors deciding they’re not allowed to sell porn. The UX has improved considerably. It’s not quite ‘there’, but much better than before.
Yes as a user I don’t get chargeback disputes. That’s why I pay with crypto if I trust the vendor or if it’s for a small amount. Sometimes the savings even get passed to me. If I want protection, I use my credit card.
Stripe seem interested in this too given their push for crypto payments that’s supposed to arrive soonish. I’m curious how much of the savings will get passed on to users. But maybe it’ll just fizzle out again.
My goal is to create micro SaaS with unique functionality under the name of my organization and following its niche, i.e. web and software development. So our paid software will surely allow cloud/AI services or even project organization for freelancer/startup.
2. Be able to answer “why you” if your market is too generic you likely don’t have a strong story here. Why is this the most important thing to build right now for your customers and why are you uniquely suited to building it?
"If you can't tell, does it matter?" This line from Westworld being played out on reddit. How does one determine if one is a real person with access to only text / comments and the constraint of keeping everyone anonymous.
You can install the Advigator Chrome Extension and click on the “customer review” tab on the top-right nav bar. You will get actual summary from reviews.
