Topic
remote work
- Don't Confuse Motion With Progress
When I read Cal Newport's Deep Work a few years ago, one of my favorite ideas in the book that I keep coming back to in conversations is the idea of "busyness as a proxy for productivity". Here's how he puts it: In th…
- The State of Distributed Work
Like most teams, we've now been fully remote and distributed since March 13th, almost 5 months exactly after moving a team of 50+ to fully remote, with no upfront plan on how to best organize ourselves. About 20 of ou…
- Figma and Remote Work
A thoughtful and transparent post from Figma founder Dylan Field on their plans for re-establishing a hybrid / hub / remote model for the future of their teams. In many ways, we followed our normal design process in r…
- Will COVID Kill the Office?
Rory Sutherland's latest column for The Spectator: Covid-19 will change how humanity works. Lockdown has revealed that a large part of the busyness of business is driven by the need to signal commitment (presenteeism)…
- Hybrid WFH is Dangerous
Interesting perspective here on the effectiveness of hybrid in-office/WFH models of work, which are likely to be popular in reopening cautiously: Hybrid structures are hard to get right because, baseline working metho…
- Weekend Reading: Universal Laws, Tandem, and Computers That Can See
📚 Universal Laws of the World A list of broad laws that apply to all fields. Thoughtful stuff as always from Morgan Housel: Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. In 1955 histori…
- Structuring Work and Teams at Basecamp
Like many working in product, I've been a follower-slash-admirer of how Basecamp works for years. This model of working in 6-week "cycles" sounds like an attractive option for organizing a team, without falling into t…
- Weekend Reading: Data Moats, China, and Distributed Work
🏰 The Empty Promise of Data Moats In the era of every company trying to play in machine learning and AI technology, I thought this was a refreshing perspective on data as a defensible element of a competitive moat. T…
- Weekend Reading: Product Market Fit, Stripe's 5th Hub, and Downlink
🦸🏽‍♂️ How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit As pointed out in this piece from Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman, most indicators around product-market fit are lagging indicators. With his compan…
- Weekend Reading: Remote Work, Autonomous Behaviors, and AirPods 2
👨🏽‍💻 Why Naval Ravikant Thinks Remote Work is the Future Anyone that works in a successful company with a large distributed staff can attest to remote-first being the future for knowledge work organizations. The mo…
- The Missing Communication Link
Slack grew huge on the idea that it would “replace email” and become the digital hub for your whole company. In some organizations (like ours), it certainly has, or has at least subsumed most all internal-only communi…