Everyone is on Zoom calls
“Zoom meeting usage has increased by 90% from the pre-COVID-19 weekly download average.” Why?
It seems that the entire professional world is spending its days on Zoom calls. People have taken their traditional ways of working and directly ported them to this distributed online modality. This “direct port” is working as a stop-gap until things go back to “normal”, but it’s not sustainable in its current form.
In a conversation with Basecamp founders, they liken this phenomenon to the early website of the late ’90s. Website designers simply transferred the user experience of the CD Rom directly to the internet, rather than rethinking what the optimal user experience for this new interface was.
Thought Experiment
“How should the way we work be changed to adapt to this new distributed system, such that we thrive rather than survive?”
All of which further begs the questions:
Part 2: How does Basecamp do it?
Part 3: How does Automattic do it?
Part 4: How does Linux do it?
I can tell you what they all don’t do… all-day Zoom calls.