Sung Choi went remote during COVID convinced he'd hate it, then never wanted to return to an office. He argues remote work works when technology is mature enough, but AI moves so fast that being near other innovators and attending meetups is essential to stay at the cutting edge.
Chapters
You guys have been virtual the entire time, or have you got— did you go virtual kind of during COVID During COVID And I was one of those people that went kicking and screaming, you know. I thought, hey, like, there's no way this could work, um, people can't be productive, you know. I had, I had this mindset of people need to be in person to work, uh, and then about, you know, 2 or 3 months in, I told myself, wow, I never want to go back to going into the office ever again. I think it works better when the core of the technology is mature. In crypto, there's— the pace of innovation isn't necessarily tied to technical innovation in the sense of new things being invented. I think it's things that are being optimized or improved in a marginal way, but we're not getting breakthrough cryptography that's changing the face of cryptocurrencies, right? I do think it makes much more sense for industries like AI where everything is changing so rapidly that you either A, want to be next to the people having these conversations. The other really important part is just to be around like-minded thinkers so that, you know, you can go to the meetups and you can go to, you know, go have those conversations and, and, you know, find other people that, that you need to speak to, to learn a little bit more so that you can develop something even more spectacular than what was in your mind.
