Does a teetotaler still have a chance to be working for GitHub? (given he is great by the way). By reading your posts, I feel like it is a non negotiable requirement and that it's basically impossible to be awesome without drinking.<p>Other than that, keep it on. I really enjoy reading your posts!
So.. All of the flexibility and asynchronous working styles, and no enforced hours.. but still no remote hiring? I'm really confused about why we don't see more companies supporting remote working.
"We bleed friendship and work together, so it’s hard to tell when we’re discussing work and when we’re chatting over beers"<p>Isn't that potentially a bad idea from a work/life balance point of view? I like to know at the end of the week that I'm free to do my own thing - feeling compelled to go out drinking with co-workers and talking about work-related subjects would stop me relaxing, and would be bad for my productivity in the long run.
I was reading it and thinking that I was like that. I used to think "meh, measuring work in hours". It felt especially disgusting when your employer did it. But then I discovered a tiny widget called "Timer" and it really made me think carefully of how I waste my time and helped me to keep track of my productivity. You just sit, start the timer and get to work, no excuses. My impression now is that it would actually be useful, not harmful, to track employees time carefully - and use it not as a final judgement, but rather as another source of data for analyzing efficiency.<p>After I read this article I started thinking about effectively tracking time. I realized the best approach would be to do it seamlessly, so that I wouldn't have to actually start/stop the timer and write down task names. And so I googled this app which seems to be doing exactly this (for the teams too): <a href="http://app.chrometa.com" rel="nofollow">http://app.chrometa.com</a> I think it would probably show a very interesting data, especially in a team of developers, which would lead to some adjustments in how people work. Too bad I'm on Ubuntu 90% of my time now, I'd probably try it.