Brandon creates a cocktail that Chris names the "Visiting Tech Worker". They then wax poetic about The Good Place and the overall genius of Kristen Bell. In other news, seems like basically all of tech is remote now? Well that calls for a check-in on Brandon's journey from remote skeptic to remote... well, whatever he is now. We share some of the drawbacks of remote life and how we try to help create a sense of culture and cohesion on distributed teams.

Show notes:

• Lord of the Rings Polygon article
  • https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/3/21161208/when-is-lord-of-the-rings-set-chronology-timeline-dates
  • https://twitter.com/onthisdayinlotr
• The Good Place
  • https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/26/20874217/the-good-place-series-finale-season-4-moral-philosophy
• House of Lies
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNLlHYJnj8I
• Revisiting remote
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-asking-employees-to-work-from-home-due-to-coronavirus-2020
• Slack emoji sentiment analysis
  • https://twitter.com/erniemiller/status/1230165595913687041
• Giphy slack bot custom caption
  • https://giphy.com/posts/giphy-slack-easter-eggs-2