Don’t disrupt yourselves. The future of work is location and time independent. Prepare for that future.

Without the space to pause and reflect, you’ll rarely improve your systems. To get better, you need slack.

Metawork is all the work you do, to make your actual work happen. Here’s why you, as a leader must practice it.

Your team won’t start writing things up diligently from day one. As a leader, you must coach them.

Aim to keep getting better at distributed work. Matt Mullenweg’s levels of autonomy can guide you to improve as a company or team.

In tech, static knowledge is often less valuable than dynamic, tacit knowledge. To make this tacit knowledge visible at speed, you must elevate your community platform to be your knowledge platform.

To figure out what tools and capabilities you need for knowledge sharing, consider a collaboration tools audit. This’ll help you identify tooling gaps and to create an investment roadmap for your executives to approve.

To follow an asynchronous, remote-first approach your people need the tools to be productive.

What’s the right time to document something? Liam Martin suggests the “rule of three” to identify the specific moment.

One way traffic doesn’t need to be synchronous. And synchronous communication better be bi-directional. Especially if it comes from you, dear leader!

When you write regularly, you’ll create referenceable artefacts. This will allow you to have fewer meetings. The artefact can serve as an efficient reference.

Think like a programmer. How can you avoid repetitive communication? Create once, share many times.

As a leader don’t take yourself too seriously. Be authentic and communicate early and often. The more you wait, the higher the stakes get.

TED talks are influential and popular because of they’re relatively short. Take a leaf out of their book.

Synchronous communication breaks down as your company grows. An async mindset to communication is more scalable and agile.

In an attention-poor, time-starved world, short messages are winning messages.

Async audio can be an interesting way to share your message while conveying emotion. Audio is particularly easy to consume passively; such as, when working out or when driving.

A precise checklist takes away the guesswork from the onboarding process. Document what the new hire needs to do, by when they need to do it, and how.

To ensure that the meetings you actually have are productive, here are a few simple things you can do.

The ConveRel quadrants are a way for you to triage your meetings and figure out which ones can immediately or eventually be async.