causal

Remote work erodes social guardrails

Just as software gets worse over time because it lacks the physical edges that constrain industrial design, remote work removes the physical pushback that normally keeps inappropriate behavior (like political proselytizing) in check, allowing things into the workplace that would never be tolerated in person.

causalpending

Speaker

Jason Fried

Evidence Quote

you can throw things into this place that you normally wouldn't if you were in person and and that begins to erode the the sort of the the wall between what's reasonable and what isn't

Source

253 - Corporate CourageMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:24:11 AM

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