Re: Wishing we were cubicle mates ;-)
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > > Yeah, proximity can be a huge boost. (Meetings? not so much!). > > A long time ago I had a really good friend and collaborator. We worked in > same office and all kinds of wonderful things spewed out of us. He moved to > a different building. Our friendship stayed fast but the collaborative work > was never the same and eventually petered to nothing. Where I am now a > co-worker merely moved from one side of a wall to another, but we can see > each other now, and we're discovering new areas where we could and should > be sharing info and data and tools almost every week. It helps that we sit > about the same place on the intro/extrovert scale. > Thanks for these anecdotes. I think they may be widely true. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Wishing we were cubicle mates ;-)
Yeah, proximity can be a huge boost. (Meetings? not so much!). A long time ago I had a really good friend and collaborator. We worked in same office and all kinds of wonderful things spewed out of us. He moved to a different building. Our friendship stayed fast but the collaborative work was never the same and eventually petered to nothing. Where I am now a co-worker merely moved from one side of a wall to another, but we can see each other now, and we're discovering new areas where we could and should be sharing info and data and tools almost every week. It helps that we sit about the same place on the intro/extrovert scale. matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Wishing we were cubicle mates ;-)
There are times when I wish all of us Leo devs occupied nearby cubicles. This is one of those times, when we are discussing new directions for Leo. Not because we could have (ugh) meetings, but because we could just chat in person. There was scientific research, reported, iirc, in Nature or Science, that showed that physical proximity was surprisingly important in collaborative strength. I think we are doing pretty well with (mostly) only online proximity, but still... Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
