kdh wrote:Everyone who knows me knows that I don't carry my phone reliably or respond to anything until I get around to it.
What is so important that it requires an immediate response? We obsess about technology ruining life in our Waldorf community. The technology has nothing to do with it, it's being tied to a device when an immediate response is expected. Texting is the worst for this.
Keith,
I hear you. It is really REALLY hard to get any serious work done while constantly responding to email, phone, txt, slack, zoom, facebook messenger, twitter messenger, etc.... When I want to do any real work, I turn all that stuff off. (Scantlings is the worst because you all are saying stuff I really want to hear.)
That said, modern geographically distribute teams of folks can work together quite well over a tool like Slack or with a Zoom video conference turned on. In my last company, I probably spent 1/3 of my day in the virtual bull pen. As a newly minted programmer I worked in a bull pen on US Gov. stuff for Singer Link (building aircraft simulators). There were over 100 of us in one room. The problem was everyone had a phone on their desk, and with 100 phones in one room it meant that there was a phone ringing about once a minute. I eventually got everyone to muffle the bells in their old-school phones. That made things much nicer.
Younger folk I work with treat all the electronics like they do being in a big room full of their peers. They talk to some folks, not to others, drop out, come back in, dynamically. Many have trouble focusing on anything for very long. Coaching from an old guy like me helps them focus. Noise cancelling headsets help too. I haven't seen a private office or a company with everyone in one city in a long long time.