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> Can you explain how some of the greatest technical research projects of our time like the internet, Linux, etc happened without a big office then?

Stating that it’s possible is very different to stating which model might be more effective or faster.

Unfortunately we don’t have a parallel universe where torvalds lived on the same street as a bunch of other collaborators to compare



I bet if we talked to Torvalds about it, he'd have an incredibly strong opinion to share, and I don't have any difficulty guessing what it would be.

Indeed, searching for "Torvalds remote work" yields this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/pet-the-cat-own-the-bathrobe-l...

> Torvalds admits that when he started, "I worried about missing human interaction -- not just talking to people in the office and hallways, but going out to lunch etc. It turns out I never really missed it."

> "If you spend hours in online meetings from home, instead of spending hours in meetings at the office like you used to, you've just taken the worst part of office life, and brought it home, and made it even worse."




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