The radical combination of remote work, IRC meetings, and transcripts reaffirmed something I'd always known: starting a new job makes you a paratrooper. You jump out of the safe, comfortable airplane of your past experience to land in a place you have seen only rough maps of—maps made by the people who most want you to jump. These maps are happier and neater than the landscapes they represent, yet you want the map to be true, so you trust it. As a result, most
