Self Care: I choose to protect my inner child statement. It’s ok to ask for help, it’s ok to say no and not to give your best all the time.

Tips to separate working time and personal time when working remote. Be happier and more productive, both at work and in your leisure time.

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 says the Doctor title is something to be proudly shown, because there are tons of energy, and enthusiasm on it. (Even more, especially when it…

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 distances and we can be together. I’m more than glad. Honored. Thrilled… to be in WordCamp Finland. For the moment everything has been awesome: the…

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 are 2 tracks, one in English and another one in Spanish, both with some of the most interesting speakers in the remote and distributed ecosystem…

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 reaction was the same but it was pretty cool, actually, because the schema included: A 30 min presentation, with some questions they gave to me…

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)