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When I visited Chicago a couple of weeks ago, I met the founder of a small analytics startup. Showing my San Francisco bias, I asked him if it was difficult to find the talent he needed in the Chicago area. He scoffed and began rattling off a list of the various states and countries where his developers worked.

What's happening with remote work now is different than the wave of offshoring that crested in the 2000s, which was driven mainly by a misguided zeal to cut costs. Today's programmers can work almost anywhere, anytime, and you don't need to go through a big offshore outsourcing shop to find them. The nature of work, particularly coding, is slowly beginning to parallel the distributed open source software development model.

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