Career

The current scene, with so many companies working remotely, leaves the employees with some changes in how things work in a company when there’s no office that are not obvious. Dynamics, habits and workflows change to some extent in a remote organization. Here I share some of the things I’ve learnt in the last few years that helped me from the perspective of a regular employee in a fully remote company.

Many times in our careers as software developers we tend to use the same known tools to do a completely new different project with new constraints. Why do we tend to choose the same tools with small changes over and over again if we have the chance? Abraham Kaplan wrote in 1964 [1]: I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ...