Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today we're going to talk to Chris Mimms, technologyist at the Wall Street Journal.

I'm going to be honest with you, this was in no small measure a therapy session for two guys who have been in isolation for more than a week now, but also we trade work from home tips and best practices for those of you who are working from home at the moment.

And also we take a look at how the tech industry has responded to the crisis so far.

Then what I think we should do actually is let's start out by

acknowledging our privilege here.

We're gonna talk about working from home and stuff today.

Listen, there's health care workers out there on the front lines.

There are people with jobs that if you don't go to the job, you don't have a job, you can't work from home. So I think I'm speaking for Chris to when I say we want to acknowledge that up front.

But given that a large portion of the audience to this show is probably Devs and and software developers people working in the tech industry

that are probably able to work from home. Chris how's work from home going for you?

It is a non-home. going for you. You know, it's enormously challenging. I think as it is for everybody, you know, those of us with kids at home, it's of course even more challenging because they were under this extra obligation to keep them

fed and alive and entertained and possibly even educated.

I was going to say because my wife is actually sticking somewhat to actual

school like regimented. All right now we're doing circle time now we're doing we do the

pledge every morning are you guys doing that sort of thing

no we have a schedule that we make the kids our kids are older daydream just seven to

ten and they don't are older, age ranges 7 to 10.

And the oldest writes out, one of the oldest writes out

a schedule every morning and it really helps.

And you know, kids love structure, so they love, you know, they're constantly like love you know they're constantly like you know well what

time is blah blah blah and oh this went over and they are really into modifying their

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