Effective Remote Work

Acknowledgments

When I finished my first book—Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager—at the beginning of 2020, I said to myself, tired from writing more than 300 pages, that I wasn’t going to be doing that again anytime soon. However, 18 months later I find myself sitting here writing the “Acknowledgements” section of my second book.

Well, what happened? As you may know, a lot happened in that year. And much of it was challenging. We found ourselves stuck at home, away from our families, in a place that we’d settled in primarily due to the location of an office.

As the months unfolded, the pandemic made us completely rethink our life choices. Remote work developed from a novelty into an essential part of our lives. We sold our house ...