Inside Remote

Episode Notes

We talk about: 

• Remote meetings
• Where did idea for Toasty.ai come from
• How to run meetings where everybody is engaged into the conversation

Kevon Cheung

• Website
• Toasty

Credits:

• Gramatik for music

Notes & Links:

• Microschooled
• RunningRemote
• Sococo
• Hopin.to
• Miro.com
• Mural
• Focusmate
• Zoom
• Notion

We talk about: 

• What is asynchronous work
• How to hire a good remote worker
• How to work asynchronously

Notes and links:

• Zoom
• Loom
• Slack
• Dropbox Paper
• Google Docs
• Notion

Marcus Wermuth:

• Website
• Twitter

Credits:

• Gramatik for music

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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Links:

• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
• High Output Management
• Farnam Street
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Twist
• Todoist
• Github
• Zendesk
• Sketch
• Zoom
• Google Docs
• Paper
• Vim
• Bear
• iAWriter
• Oura Ring

Credits:

• Gramatik for music

Links:

• Remote Mob Programming
• Java by Comparison
• Yeti Microphone
• Logitech Camera
• Zoom
• iPad
• Apple Pencil
• Miro

Simon Harrer:

• Twitter 

Credits:

Gramatik for music

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. 

Links:

• Yac.chat
• Product Hunt Makers festival
• Loom
• Distributed Teams - John O'Duinn
• Deep Work
• Upwork
• Slack
• Zoom.us
• Visual Studio Code
• Travis CI
• Asana
• Newton Mail
• Jumpshare

Justin Mitchell:

• Twitter

Credits:

Gramatik for music

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

Links:

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

Credits:

• Gramatik for music

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

Notes and links:

• Customer.io
• Slack
• Zoom
• Weworkremotely
• Disagree and Commit
• Jeff Bezos Letters
• High Output Management

Colin Nederkoorn

• Customer.io
• Website
• Twitter

Credits:

• Gramatik for intro music

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:

• Engadget
• Gitlab Values
• Gitlab Handbook
• Sid Sibrandij
• Meetings instructions
• Informal Communication
• Part-remote
• Benefits
• GitLab Blog
• Typora

Darren Murph

• Website
• Instagram

Credits:

• Jan Jenko for header photo
• Gramatik for intro music

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.

In this episode we talk about:

• How Happy Tools started
• How to discuss new work
• Learning on how to operate remotely
• What can onsite teams learn from remote teams
• Optimizing remote work
• How to approach hiring

Notes and links:

• Happy Tools
• Automattic
• Happy Schedule
• Communication is key
• Champaign, Illionois
• Campfire
• Zoom
• Drafts
• Trello

Matt Wondra

• Website
• Twitter

Credits:

• Jan Jenko for header photo
• Gramatik for intro music