You need to give a talk on zoom and you need a hand preparing it? Here you have 5 clear and actionable tips to nail it!

When I read my colleague Tess’s post (my title my choice) I decided to do something about it. Context: The post was a reaction to a repulsive Wall Street Journal article. That article simply is a repugnant patronizing and sexist attack on Dr. Jill Biden’s use of Dr. title. I agree with Tess when she […]

A working routine to be productive and happy in remote work that leaves time for self-care and awareness and structures your working day.

I remember back in 1996 where I got a microwave Internet access (How? That’s a longer history). The best place in the whole world to get stuff was Oulu university servers (Heads up I’m talking about FTP, not HTTP). It was paradise! It sounded picturesque, far away… but now, 25 years later, the Internet removed […]

Tomorrow, Nov 5th I’ll be talking about Office Agnosticism at Repeople conference. Repeople was formerly NomadCity (It was renamed this year), and it is the largest remote work event in Europe. An opportunity to learn, share… and dream of a time where you can work from wherever you want to live, not the opposite. There […]

If team lead is less present in conversations it creates a space for others to participate and foster participation. An experiment explained.

Better late than never. Let’s share the presentation I made for a talk with People R-evolution. It was on July 20th from 17.00 to 19.00 CEST (This is the link to the talk) and was about communication, openness, and asynchronous work and how it relates to happiness at work. So two hours! Yeah, my first […]

I’ll be talking about distributed work and how we implement it in Automattic with some nice folks in People R-evolution. It’ll be on July 20th from 17.00 to 19.00 CEST and you can sign up for this talk here

Delegate what to who. Allow your team to find the how, sharing freedom and enjoyment. You’ll get extra time not checking the process but just the outcome.

To overlap knowledge generation and use you need no central point where knowledge is managed (Think management as validation and distribution control)

Knowing more about your team mates helps to bond the team and feel better at work. So we shared our previous work stories with awesome results.

Recap of my talks at commit-conf and EdunovaTIC19. How could we use peer reviews in an open horizontal environment to convert them into a learning process.