FFS - working from home isn't new!
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Claim: working from home is not new and what matters is organization not Zoom or headsets. Historical specifics: Roman rule of roughly 100 million people with messenger speed 50–80 km per day shows clear mandates and delegation scale, Ford’s 1.6 by 2.4 km factory and modern airliner and iPhone supply maps show distributed manufacturing is solvable. Practical rules: fewer meetings, write it down, set output metrics, clarify who owns each deliverable and let people do the work.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:10Innovation
- 5:10Ancient Rome
- 7:35What did work
- 10:23Roman Empire
- 10:57Dark Ages
- 11:40Industrial Age
- 12:37Factory vs Office
- 14:16Why did factories change
- 15:35Manufacturing example
- 16:20iPhone
- 16:32Remote working is difficult
- 17:00Why is Apple so advanced
- 17:42Evolution of Factory
- 18:29Summary
- 18:50The 90s
- 19:00The Present
- 19:17Broadband
- 19:53Communication
- 20:55Writing stuff down
- 21:09Skype and Zoom
- 21:21Open Source Projects
- 21:33Remote working is hard
- 21:44Give the job to someone
- 21:58Variance
- 22:29No pronouns
- 22:44Contact details
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