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Brown: Remote could not maintain velocity if relying on meetings
“And if we had to have meetings to get something done or to make a decision, we would never be able to move at the pace that we need to move at.”
Brown: Remote etiquette means searching documentation before asking colleagues
“Our motto is always search first, ask questions later. So being kind also means trying to find the information yourself and not making someone else do the work for you.”
Brown: Public Slack channels force thoughtful team communication
“We always default to collaborating async and public channels and Slack, and the fact that it is public actually forces people to be really thoughtful about how they communicate with each other.”
Remote explicitly discourages internal emails and private Slack channels
“We discourage emails and private Slack channels, and we encourage everyone to share their work publicly early and often.”
Remote's CEO actively calls out teams and orders them to cancel meetings
“Our goal is to actually avoid meetings as much as possible, and our CEO will even call us out if he thinks we're having too many meetings, and he asks us all the time to kill meetings.”
Remote refuses to track employee screen time, evaluating only outcomes
“Well, we look only at outcomes, so we don't track the time spent on the screen. We only look at the outcomes that the individuals are producing, and so, you know, we have performance periods, for example, and we encourage all of our managers to have regular on…”
Brown: Remote's founders created company values before building a product
“And at Ramo, our founders developed our values before they ever even had a product.”