Working Distributed - How Does It Even Work?
summary
Shows concrete numbers and practices: GitHub runs ~580 people with ~321 remote (~55%), cites studies (e.g., Cisco survey of 2,000 people working 50% remotely) and productivity stats (distractions every 3 minutes, 75% unrelated). Describes tooling and automations: remote-first culture, Slack with integrated bots, hubot for location and deploys, and BlueJeans for meetings. Covers rules and rituals—no self-merges, 24‑hour wait on big PRs, “golden time” overlap, routines, Do Not Disturb and workspace setup.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:35Whats like being a remote worker
- 2:56How easy is it to fail
- 4:55Remote friendly and remote
- 7:19Remote working benefits
- 9:48How to support remote working
- 11:01Creating remote culture
- 12:35Chat rooms
- 13:43Integration
- 16:10Slack
- 19:11Video conferencing
- 22:06Github
- 26:29Burnout
- 31:17Golden Time
- 33:09Balance
- 36:45Real Talk
- 41:23Questions
- 47:35Engine Screen
- 48:09Issues with Distributed Teams
- 48:57Making Everyone Work Remote
- 49:49Moving the Technology People
- 51:02Travel
- 51:41Emoji
- 52:28Virtual Windows
- 53:19Boarding
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