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Remote Work

Comprehensive guidance for thriving in distributed teams, optimizing your home workspace, maintaining work-life boundaries, and leveraging digital collaboration tools

Remote Work Mastery

As remote and hybrid work models become standard, this category provides essential resources for:

  • Creating an ergonomic and productive home office that supports your health and focus
  • Digital communication strategies to maintain team cohesion and clarity
  • Work-life boundary setting to prevent burnout and overwhelm
  • Remote leadership techniques for managing distributed teams effectively
  • Technology recommendations for seamless virtual collaboration
  • Combating isolation and building community in a digital workspace

Drawing from years of remote work experience, these articles offer practical solutions to common distributed work challenges while highlighting the benefits this flexible arrangement can bring to your professional and personal life.

12 articles in this category
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Remote work organization strategies

Working at home comes with many benefits, like wearing slippers all day and being your boss, but it’s essential to have an effective organizational plan to make it profitable. These strategies for organizing your workday and environment will help you meet your goals.

Mar 20, 2022
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Staying focused while working remotely

Remote work isn't just about working from home — it's about building systems that let you do your best work regardless of location. After years of remote development work and managing distributed teams, I've learned that the developers who thrive remotely aren't necessarily the most disciplined ones. They're the ones who understand that focus is a skill you can optimize, just like any other part of your development workflow.

Nov 26, 2021
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tips for landing a promotion while working remotely

Remote work changed the promotion game. The old rules about being visible in the office don't apply when everyone's working from their kitchen table, but new challenges emerged around how to demonstrate value, build relationships, and position yourself for advancement when you're not physically present.

Nov 21, 2021
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Building a remote culture

Building remote culture isn't about replicating office dynamics through video calls and virtual happy hours. It's about intentionally designing systems, processes, and norms that help distributed teams thrive. The companies that figured this out early gained a massive competitive advantage in talent acquisition and retention.

Nov 17, 2021
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How to make the most out of working from home

Working from home isn't just about swapping your commute for coffee in pajamas. It's about designing a work environment and routine that actually makes you more productive, more focused, and more sustainable in your career. The people who excel at remote work treat it like a skill to develop, not just a perk to enjoy.

Nov 16, 2021
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Video meeting fatigue is a performance issue (and how to debug it)

Your video meetings are probably leaking cognitive resources faster than a memory leak in production. What started as a temporary solution to stay connected during 2020 has become a permanent drain on mental bandwidth.

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Managing up when your boss is a remote API (and how to optimize the connection)

Managing a remote boss is like working with a poorly documented API — you need to understand the interface, anticipate the inputs they need, and deliver consistent, reliable outputs even when you can't see what's happening on their end.

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No spare room? How to architect a productive workspace in any living situation

Remote work doesn't require a dedicated office — it requires intentional space design. When you're competing with family activities, kitchen chaos, and living room distractions, you need to architect your workspace like you'd design a resilient system: adaptable, efficient, and optimized for your specific constraints.

Oct 31, 2021
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Master Remote Work: A Developer's Guide to Home Office Success

Remote work isn't just about swapping your office chair for a kitchen table. It's a fundamental shift in how you approach productivity, focus, and career growth. After years of managing remote teams and optimizing my own home office setup, I've learned that success comes down to intentional systems and boundaries.

Oct 30, 2021
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Remote Work Isolation: Engineering Human Connection in Distributed Teams

The silence hits you around 2 PM on a Tuesday. You've been heads-down in code for hours, solved a tricky algorithmic problem, and want to share the breakthrough with someone. But there's no one there. No impromptu hallway conversations, no quick desk drop-bys to celebrate small wins. Just you, your monitor, and the faint hum of your development machine.

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Developer in a Strange Land. Part 2

Find your routine

Jan 18, 2020
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Developer in a Strange Land. Part 1

Surviving Remote Work

Jan 17, 2020