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Can We Build Scenius From Scratch? - by Varun

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One of the biggest buzzwords I’ve heard over the last year or two right next to metaverse, blockchain, and hybrid work is community. From mixers at school to remote water cooler chats in the workplace, everyone is looking for community. Why is this the case? Why do we care about community right now? These aren’t difficult questions. An easy guess would attribute our social fragmentation to the pandemic. We’re currently in the long tail of remote work following COVID-19 and it looks like the genie is out of the bottle. Companies that have gone fully remote are struggling to round up their employees back into the office. The distributed nature of remote work has its benefits. Employees can work in different parts of the world and easily attend to other issues in their life. But it has a devastating impact on collaborative problem solving. It is hard to work on the same problem when everyone is on different timezones. It is also equally difficult to bounce ideas about a problem that you a

One of the biggest buzzwords I’ve heard over the last year or two right next to metaverse, blockchain, and hybrid work is community. From mixers at school to remote water cooler chats in the workplace, everyone is looking for community. Why is this the case? Why do we care about community right now? These aren’t difficult questions. An easy guess would attribute our social fragmentation to the pandemic. We’re currently in the long tail of remote work following COVID-19 and it looks like the genie is out of the bottle. Companies that have gone fully remote are struggling to round up their…

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