Marcus Wermuth on Asynchronous work

Amir, founder and CEO of Doist is sharing with us lessons he learned while he is building one of the more known remote first companies. Listen to what he has to say on the difficult topics.

We talk about:

How to hire
How to fire
Managing yourself

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Gramatik for music

enFebruary 06, 2020

Simon Harrer on Mob Programming

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Twitter

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enJanuary 21, 2020

Justin Mitchell on improving remote collaboration through audio

This episode Andrej and Justin are going to talk about the start of Yac.chat and how they try to improve remote collaboration. Justin also shared few tips on hiring and what kind of structure their remote team has.

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Justin Mitchell:

Twitter

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Gramatik for music

enNovember 28, 2019

Episode 7: Ryan Singer on how Basecamp approaches building software

This episode we are hosting Ryan Singer from Basecamp. Ryan is one of the earliest members of Basecamp. Along with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hannson he built the first version of Basecamp. 15 years later he wrote a book on how Basecamp approaches building software.

We talk about:

Techniques on Shape Up
Why Agile doesn't work for most teams
How to approach building software
What you should be doing first when building software
Why do you need to learn betting
How to communicate with team
How to plan work
Why Basecamp doesn't have product managers
What is Basecamp looking for when hiring
How to compensate in person time in remote teams

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Shape Up
Basecamp
Jobs to be Done
iPad Pro
Apple Pencil
Notability
Zoom
Economist

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Gramatik for music

enNovember 06, 2019

Episode 6: Colin Nederkoorn on lessons building remote companies

On this episode Colin Nederkoorn shares lessons on building remote company. Colin is a CEO of company called Customer.io where they help companies automated communication with customers. This week we cover lessons from building and running a remote team.

In this episode we cover following topics:

Lessons on building a remote company
Transformation into remote company
Difficulties explaining running remote back in the days
Getting people to socialize on remote teams
Issues when hiring remote talent
Diversity advantage in remote teams

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Colin Nederkoorn

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Gramatik for intro music

enSeptember 30, 2019

Episode 5: Darren Murph on how to build Remote Culture

This week we had an interesting chat with Darren Murph from Gitlab.

Darren leads all-remote initiatives at GitLab, one of the world's largest 100% remote companies. He also holds a Guinness World Record in publishing.

Explorer at heart, he had travelled in over 50 countries and all 50 US states and worked as a digital nomad. He's passionate about enabling remote work for all and advocating for adoption. This episode is covering a lot of different topics. Darren is such all rounder I am sure we will be recording a new episode soon!

In this episode we talk about:

How to be a digital nomad
Rules for building remote culture
Rules for running teams with 900+ people
What onsite teams can learn from remote teams
Ways to create bonds in remote teams
Video calls vs Audio calls
How to operate efficiently
How transparency benefits to company
How did Darren set a World Record

Notes and links:

Darren Murph

Credits:

Jan Jenko for header photo
Gramatik for intro music

enSeptember 17, 2019

Episode 4: Matt Wondra on building new tools for distributed teams

This time I was talking with Matt Wondra.

Matt is a Product Lead at Happy Tools, company of Automattic. Matt started his career in tech as a developer and after while switched to the role of Product Lead.
This episode Matt shares a lot of interesting things regarding remote work and how they are planning to help other companies operate in distributed way with new set of remote tools.

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