Great approach. If you trigger strong reactions, you are on the right path.
Remote working is about communication discipline - like in the army. Have a talk to tank-commander or someone else who relies on radio communication. I think this gives great insights.
I studied CS up to a German Diploma (comparable to a Major-Degree) and it was hard.
Now, ten years later, with all that advances in AI I finally know why I had to learn all that theoretical stuff: for the future to come.
Do your major degree, it makes the future more fun!
Microservices and NoSQL - the wonder-weapons against every IT problem, aren‘t they?!
I really have to pivot my business - new name will be „The Microservice-NoSql Consulting Company“ and we will sell tailored versions of the „Microservice-NoSql Strategy“! (Changing names and colors of boxes for 2000$ per day)
The world actually is a giant field test at the moment. Many people get infected by potentially different strains of COVID. There is no need to infect voluntaries as thousands already get infected by the choose of the virus every day.
This data should be used: E.g. are there extreme examples, like many inhabitants of an elderly home getting infected but noone dies?!
One should look out for this and use this to boost the development of treatments and vaccines.
This working-style reminds me more of the weavers in Europe at the end of the 19th century. Home-workers will easily just be rated (and paid) on the amount of work done per day. As there are always others who will be more productive, wages decline. At the end, whole families have to produce digital content to make a small fortune...
(I hope I will be wrong with this)
I really also asked myself this question before. I sometimes used Outlook in an instant-messaging way and wondered if there is any optimized frontend to do so.
Many „old school“ businesses and government entities still struggle to introduce instant-messaging as an official way to communicate - end then it ends at the company’s boundaries as others use other tools.
Email is broadly accepted.
I would become a user of instant-mail.
I always changed my life shortly before one of these crisis took effect. Why? I don't now...
Dot-Com bust:
After school in 2000, I worked for a small startup which hired me full-time because I was able to code in Java. I had to quit this because of mandatory military service (was still mandatory in Germany in 2000) and later moved out of my home town to study computer science. For me, I could only pay for this with a side job and in early 2001 there are still huge job opportunities if you had some coding skills. I don't now, but I opted for the least modern industry and went to a company building software for steel-rolling and warehouse logistics. When the towers collapsed I was in the first month in the job and in my studying city (Aachen). Everything else went down but the industry I worked for was quite immune. They even kept me as a student worker while laying off other employees around me. I learnt a lot in this times, because I worked with developers having a coding experience of 40years AND they were open for new stuff.
In 2007/2008: Ok, I skipped a lot of studying in between and in 2007 my employee offered me a full time job (skipping studying completely). I refused and quit the job from my side. Lived on savings and started to complete studying full-time - then everything went down. I actually owned some stocks and hedged them with put-options 4 weeks before the stock market collapsed. Sold everything with no losses. During studying I went for the more theoretical parts of computer science - that turned out to be very helpful because with most modern tech, I just needed to conclude which theory now was brought to live.
Now: I quit my well paid consulting job in December 2019 to build a startup. Selling digital marketing products for brick&mortar business. Not the best thing for the moment, but I got some cash in the backhand and lets see if this (unintended) strategy pays off again.