The Top 50 Async-First Remote Companies


Hey there, This is the 50th issue of Remotely Interesting! 🥳 3 years. 50 issues. 3k subscribers. Thank you for being here!

To celebrate, I'm sharing a new resource of 50 async-first remote companies + their best resources on having less meetings.

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​Stop Making Your Team Own Tasks. Let Them Own Programs Instead.​
"The way we run (most) teams is silly. We hire people for specific tasks, creating a bunch of stakeholders for one given program. We put too many cooks in the kitchen — and then later, we complain about it. Here's another way to run your team..."

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In Case You Missed It

​How do you deal with endless work notifications?​
Last week, I shared about the Boxed Sync approach I take to stop the endless stream of work notifications from distracting me from the real work.

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