diff --git a/content/blog/remoteness-of-remote-work.md b/content/blog/remoteness-of-remote-work.md index ebf02dd..adb857f 100644 --- a/content/blog/remoteness-of-remote-work.md +++ b/content/blog/remoteness-of-remote-work.md @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ I feel that, if anything, humanity is slowly reaching a point where we may have ### Productivity There is individual productivity, skill-building, growth, and excellence. There is also org-level productivity, skill-building, growth, and excellence. -Without the latter, without collective excellence in an org, there is no room for individual excellence, and very easily, no good org left for a motivated individual to excel or even work in. This is an understanding that does not come easily to young individuals at the infancy of their careers, where they are naturally motivated and fixated, and rightly so, on self-improvement and learning. Thinking aobut it, this is not evident to, or is entirely neglected by, seasoned professionals as well. +Without the latter, without collective excellence in an org, there is no room for individual excellence, and very easily, no good org left for a motivated individual to excel or even work in. This is an understanding that does not come easily to young individuals at the infancy of their careers, where they are naturally motivated and fixated, and rightly so, on self-improvement and learning. Thinking about it, this is not evident to, or is entirely neglected by, seasoned professionals as well. I noticed that working remotely, the sense of individual excellence slowly started triumphing over the sense of collective excellence, entirely unsurprisingly, thanks to the widening communications chasm. In a good org, the job of a software developer, for instance, is not just to develop good software or innovate or finish their tasks at hand. Their job is to also work with others around them and enable them to also do the same. Fluid, casual conversations and communication are essential to this. This cannot be a scheduled calendar item and has to flow naturally. In a good org, institutional memory is distributed across many individuals who are able to work reasonably well together.