Tag: waysofworking
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Better Slacking
When I started working here we were around 50 employees in two countries, and now we’re going past 300 in four. I think we’ve outgrown our organically-evolved Slack usage and we’ve slowly bumped into a few problems, or at least things that aren’t as good as they could be. There’s a few people who agree…
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Modern laptops are quite good, actually
There’s some talk in the bits of the Internet I hang out in around how poor modern laptops are. As expected (given the bits of the Internet I frequent) a lot of this boils down to the way modern laptops are not Thinkpads. The most recent thing I read was An Epitaph To Laptops and,…
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Good Meetings
I’m holding a lot of meetings at the moment, for a bunch of different reasons, and with different people. I’ve settled on some principles that I think are pretty universally true: All meetings are optional If someone doesn’t want to be in a meeting then they probably won’t gain anything from being there, and nor…
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Documentation
Documentation is a last resort. Few people want to read a document, and fewer still want to write it. I think the appropriate attitude towards documentation is to have a little of it as possible. First, try to not write documentation In an ideal world, we don’t need any documentation because everyone already knows everything.…