rpazyaquian

I agree. Uncertainty and lack of prioritization and focus is independent of location.

You have options here. You can set aside a room as your quiet office, you can find a cafe or rent a coworking space to work in...it doesn't necessitate commuting 45 minutes into an office to solve.

If you have that many employees working remotely, you should have already transitioned to an independent, accessible source-of-truth for all your discussed changes and plans. Slack convos, Confluence, a wiki, a Google doc, something.

Open source projects don't have deadlines, product owners, antsy investors, runways, or quarterly goals, though.

I was eating a chocolate bar recently and I had this exact thought. Don't trust articles that say "X is good for you" when X is a commonly advertised commodity. Which is most things.

Unfortunately the only way I can see to relieve this is to support remote/WFH workers who might live in suburbs away from major city centers, or even in a totally different part of the country. That, and decentralizing our entire culture. That'll be much harder.

Well, true, you have a point. Ruby is rarely used outside of Rails. Which is a shame, really.

That is exactly what I am thinking myself.

You're listing off tooling, libraries, and frameworks written with or targeting Python, which isn't Python itself. As soon as you want to go off the rails in any of those things, Python gets as complicated as any other language.

My take on the matter is that Python is gaining traction due to its market share of the Data Science/Machine Learning field, which is what's really gaining traction and growing quickly. Had Perl or Ruby been the premier language to use for DS/ML, they would be growing instead of Python.

I agree. Our need for more workers, both unskilled and skilled, is starting to plateau. We don't actually know how to deal with that[1], and people are starting to get antsy as opportunities become less and less common.

[1]Well, we do, but nothing that's implemented on a large scale yet.

This seems to be the case in many places outside of Rails. I know that Clojure, at least, seems to encourage implementing things yourself by way of leveraging smaller libraries and modules.

Auth is genuinely hard, and turnkey solutions often aren't enough.

Now to add Twitch integration.

What does that mean for things like Vanguard's retirement fund strategy? Isn't that based entirely on long-term improvement in the market?

Sounds like where the US is headed.

Six months to land the right job holds for any job or field, remote or not. There's a lot of jobs available, but along with that you need to be picky - it can take some time to find a competitive, ideal option.