One thought related to your post is how people with open source experience already understand how to work remotely, or at least in a decentralized organization. This is rare for most of the working world, but I’m not surprised that you found so many parallels.

The book has a general audience readership it seems and many of them are surprised that any of what i described worked at all – and when I explain that Apache, Linux, etc. some of the most important software in the world, shares some of these same elements they still have a hard time imagining it.

It seems much of the working world has a narrow set of experiences for what “work” is and have a hard time even imagining alternatives, which is part of why I wrote the book in the first person (rather than as a manifesto like 37signal’s remote). I wanted to describe the actual realities, as that’s perhaps the bigger gap to more people trying these ideas.

Anyway – thanks for reading the book and mentioning it. Appreciated.