Working from home these days entails a lot of video conferencing. I hope when we reach the other side of the immediate COVID-19 crisis we will not have grown too accustomed to working remotely. While I appreciate the options this technology provides, I think the best engineering happens when teams are face-to-face, preferably with a whiteboard at hand. Although I am well suited to working alone as a genetically programmed introvert, I much prefer working in close proximity to my engineering teams so that we can spontaneously brainstorm and rapidly share ideas and thoughts.

I try to use a new virtual background every day taken from my collection of landscapes or other interesting images. It makes for a nice distraction from the same office backdrop every day.