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10 entries tagged “Remote Work”
- Embracing Remote Work: Benefits, Dangers, and Overcoming Challenges
· 6 min
After years of building and running distributed engineering teams, here are the actual benefits, real dangers, and hard-won lessons about making remote work stick.
remote-work
leadership
teams
Hybrid Work Is Harder Than Full Remote
· 5 min
Everyone thinks hybrid is the compromise between remote and office. It is actually harder to get right than either extreme.
remote-work
teams
leadership
2020: The Year That Broke the Playbook
· 5 min
Decloud survived its first real crisis, I took on enterprise work, and the industry learned what remote work actually looks like. A look back at a strange year.
year-in-review
infrastructure
remote-work
What Actually Works for Distributed Teams (Six Months In)
· 5 min
After running a remote-first company for years and watching everyone else scramble through COVID, here's what I've learned actually works -- and what doesn't.
remote-work
teams
engineering
What I Actually Changed About Engineering Interviews Over Zoom
· 4 min
Whiteboard coding over Zoom is broken. Here's what I do instead when hiring engineers virtually.
hiring
remote-work
engineering
Your VPN Was Never a Security Architecture
· 4 min
COVID broke everyone's VPN. Good. It was a terrible security model to begin with. The answer isn't scaling your VPN — it's replacing the mental model entirely.
infrastructure
security
remote-work
Your Team Isn't Remote. It's Just on Zoom.
· 3 min
Most teams claiming to work remotely are just recreating the office over video calls. Async communication is the actual unlock, and almost nobody is doing it right.
remote-work
architecture
leadership
Your Business Continuity Plan Is Corporate Theater
· 6 min
Most BCP documents are shelf-ware written by consultants. Here's what actually keeps engineering teams running when everything breaks.
reliability
engineering
remote-work
Your Team Just Went Remote. Here's What to Do Right Now.
· 3 min
COVID forced your engineering team remote overnight. Here's the no-fluff version of what actually matters in the first two weeks.
remote-work
engineering
teams
Async by Default: Reducing Decision Latency in Distributed Engineering Teams
· 4 min
A practical operating model for async-first communication that reduces decision latency without sacrificing alignment.
remote-work
leadership
teams