Inside Remote: Recent Episodes
Andrej Fodor
InsideRemote dives deep into various topics of #remotework. Join us and learn about remote work and how other remoters and companies work remotely.
Episode NotesWe 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
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
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:
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:
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
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
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
Credits:
- Jan Jenko for header photo
- Gramatik for intro music
This time I was talking with Radoslav Stankov.
Radoslav is Head of Engineering at Product Hunt. He is a true source of knowledge. From organizing conferences to travelling around Europe and working remotely, you will hear a lot of interesting advices from Rado.
If you want to meet him a person and learn more about React.js, you should definitely attend React Not a Conf he organizes every year in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In this episode we talk about:
- Organizing conference
- Breaking into remote work
- Everyday habits
- Leading remote teams
- Optimizing remote work
Notes and links:
- Product Hunt
- ReactNotAConf
- Vienna
- Andreas Klinger
- 2 Pizza Rule
- AngelList
- Feedback is underrated
- Routine
- Pomodoro
- Todoist
- Bear
- 1Password
- Audible
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Antifragile
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- The Phoenix Project
- Refactoring to Patterns
Radoslav Stankov
- Website
- Github
Credits:
- Jan Jenko for header photo
- Gramatik for intro music
Rajiv Ayyangar is a CEO of Tandem, app which is making remote collaboration easier. Being an avid climber and wine enthusiast coming from San Francisco, Rajiv has a rich background in startups. Recently he started solving a problem of communication for remote workers.
Notes and links:
Tandem
Amir Salihefendic
Asynchronous work
Slack
Discord
Loom
Synchronous vs asynchronous communication
Figma
Written Agenda
Meeting Notes
War Room
Tandem Remote OS stack:
Notion
Google Docs
Asana
Linear
Slack
Figma
Rajiv Ayyangar
Credits:
- Jan Jenko for header photo
- Gramatik for intro music
Miha Rekar joined Andrej on this very first episode of InsideRemote.
Miha is an engineer lead by profession with multiple hobbies on the side. When he is not working you will find him running marathons, orgainizing local Ruby events, being an event photographer and hosting his own podcast where he talks with other developers about their passions.
Being a long time remote worked his path went from faciliating many roles at Toptal to being an engineering lead in Silverfin.
In this episode we talk about:
- Everyday life of remote manager
- Importance of 1-1 communication
- Why tools don't matter if you don't have processes
- How stoicism can make you a better person
Notes and links:
- Running
- Toptal
- Silverfin
- Parallel Passion
- Never split the difference by Chris Voss
- The Art of the Awkward
- The 4 questions you should stop asking
- Stoicism
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine
Miha Rekar
