Side of the line and cats while writing the code, Linus Torvalds talk about work at home

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Today, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is raging rampant worldwide, many companies have started to accept work from home. Your boss may question the efficiency of working at home, however, they should think about Linus Torvalds. He is at home during the work and create the Linux Git, now the Linux operating system has become ruler beyond desktop systems, and Git has become mainstream software development tools all use every day.

According to Torvalds said, beginning to work from home, he would really worry about the lack of interaction between people. However it turns out, he does not seem so miss talking to colleagues in the office, and dining out. Instead, he enjoyed the time working at home.

Torvalds said the real advantage of working from home "flexibility." He suggested that we make full use of this advantage, not to re-engage in an office at home. "If you spend hours at home to participate in online meetings, just like in the office when the office before spending a few hours to attend the meeting, the office life in the worst part will also continue to work from home, or worse."

Linux kernel development team through the mailing list instead of the format of the meeting. IBM Distinguished Engineer Institute, senior Linux kernel developer James Bottomley also recommended text communication. "The key is that, in writing the cross flow has a very clear expression, so the sender can re-read and checked before outgoing mail. At the same time, we will try to keep the message short, too long content will make readers lose interest and do not read carefully, and roughly recipients will read the contents of the letter expressed missed, resulting in poor communication. "

Torvalds said, "If you work from home, you still live nine to five life, then you might therefore hate your family, yourself and your life. You only see the shortcomings, but did not enjoy the advantage."

Torvalds attitude towards the meeting can be summarized as: "Life is short, weekly meeting time should be no more than one hour." Compared to frequent video conference, he believes home office should take a completely different form, such as taking email, shared calendars and text communication might be more efficient.

Torvalds said, "You should find a way to record what work they need to do. I'm using is the Inbox, you need to do work in your inbox. I have a calendar, shared today / this week with colleagues / this month-do you can also choose their own way to record the work done and to-do work; if working in a team, then there is a way to share the better. "

We can some software, to avoid wasting time on Facebook and other social media, but also the accurate collection of exactly what you did in front of the computer. For example, the software analyzes how much time you spend at work, social media, games, online shopping and so on.

Torvalds believes that we do not need through web conferencing, to let people know what work we have done or what work should be done. He said the way home from work locations and others bound, so that we can arrange a free daily work schedule. We should make full use of this advantage, the flexibility to work. In this extraordinary period, in addition to sourcing out, we should not go out, you can pick the free time to go. Each of us should not be trapped in the office, but also will not delay our line and cats.

Finally, Torvalds said humorously, most embarrassing moments than 15:00 express little brother rang the doorbell, but I was too lazy to replace pajamas. For people who work from home, our ultimate goal is: Who cares, anyway, I'm at home, nobody cares.

Reference link: https: //www.zdnet.com/article/pet-the-cat-own-the-bathrobe-linus-torvalds-on-working-from-home/

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