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There, I said it.  I prefer working from home...and in this blog post, I'm gonna explain why.  I wonder if the fact I prefer working from home comes as news to anyone.  On the one hand, I've been an advocate for working from home for years, long before the pandemic made it trendy. Speaking of which, I've also worked almost entirely from home since the pandemic - so over five years now. I even wrote a whole blog entry on here about Making Remote Work Work ...So maybe it's obvious that I like it.  On the other hand, I'm often slightly outspoken against remote work. I dislike the stereotypical image of the hipster hunched over the macbook in a coffee shop...it just seems awful for your body and productivity. I also feel very sad when I walk through my estate and see individual people locked up in their individual houses all day working away. It all feels very dystopian and....unhealthy. Additionally, I feel like a lot of arguments online conflate working in an office a...

  Actual footage of me working remotely. I've been perplexed over the last year or so, like many people, about this whole Return To Office (RTO) thing. One of the silver linings of Covid was supposed to be that we'd all learnt that a lot of roles can be done remotely...and now we seem to be backtracking. I've not understood it.

  Being in this heart somewhat exaggerates my already prominant widow's peak... In my critically revered post about my trip to .Net Oxford recently, I mentioned that I'd had inspiration for another blog post. So here we go!  I also mentioned that I value putting different stuff in my head and shaking it up. This is kind of one of those things.  A few hours before .NET Oxford, someone in my team asked me why I thought teams, or projects failed. Obviously, this threw me a bit... I've never been part of a failing team, because every team I've been on has had me...so they were, by definition, awesome.  But, staggering humility aside, I cobbled together an answer around how a lot of issues are rooted in team dynamics.  Fast forward to .NET Oxford and I was introducing myself to someone. "I'm an Engineering Manager" I said. "Oh, are you still hands-on?", they enquired, "or do you just do management and architecture now?" As is often the cas...