Disabled - Work - Enabled
summary
Argues that remote full time employment can restore work for disabled people by using simple tech and culture changes: Skype/WhatsApp and remote desktop plus an issue tracker, knowledge base and git and VPN let people do normal engineering tasks; biggest barrier is flaky corporate VPNs and culture not tooling. Cites GitHub as a distributed success story and Cisco saving $277 million, recommends hiring reliable doers, asynchronous protocols and trust instead of micromanagement.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:40Agenda
- 1:05Remote work
- 1:40Programmers
- 2:11Student programmers
- 2:25Benefits
- 3:08Trust
- 3:54Biggest companies
- 4:53Small things
- 6:06Working VPN
- 7:15Coworking rooms
- 7:57Benefits of virtual work
- 9:02Loss of time
- 9:58Coworking
- 11:02Ultimate equalizer
- 12:53Define your protocol
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