Remote Company Culture Book - Guide to remote culture best practices for Slack generation

@earlctate Thanks man! Honestly I think setting up a healthy remote company culture is pretty simple if you just know how. Nothing needs to be perfect at the beginning, just leading it with right guidelines first will do the trick.

@earlctate @hellodusko Yeah my own experience was that it was pretty relaxed, and other than people from some cultures saying sir a lot and being very formal with the boss, there were no big differences. Good to have a guide to look at though, in case something does pop up.

@michaelmkirk heh thanks Michael, hope you'll like the book same as illustrations. Cover image is done by an amazing illustrator Barbora Idesova: https://www.instagram.com/barbor...

@faborio Hey Peter, the fact that they all care so much about building a strong and healthy company culture and are willing to share those internal insights as an example for others is incredible. One funny moment, where the whole team at Dribbble used Bonusly rewards to get one of their co-founders to get a custom looking Muppet and perform the whole all-hands call as that Muppet.

@vladojsem That's all I was hoping for, to see someone getting through it in one breath while finding at least something useful in it :) Thanks Filtering/deleting inappropriate communication is a hard topic. Ideal scenario is that you have guidelines to prevent all of that from happening. The worst case is deleting it intentionally without a public explanation, that's just toxic. I have a very strong opinion about private channels and the fact they should be used just for limited usecases where it does really make sense. A lot of companies don't allow you to create random private channels, just the curated ones for specific cases. And I think it's one of the "restrictions" that does make sense to do to prevent those toxic situations and helps building the culture in the rght direction.

@jesusrlett heh it does sound ridiculous for non-remote folks. But when you spend most of your days working from home and seeing your colleagues once a year on a company offsite. Having a drink on your table while chatting over Zoom with them, starts to make sense and could actually be pretty nice. Embracing the weirdness :)

Thanks @andrei_negrau, I really appreciate the feedback. As I don't wanna overpromise on the app launch, realistically we're still few months away from public v1, but hopefully will be inviting some beta users and building the product around them in upcoming 1-2 months.

@privorka95 This book is kind of an initiative that's connected to a bigger picture of helping remote companies grow more effectively by having a customized automated employee onboarding https://ahoyteam.com. But, I can see publishing few more "handbooks" around building remote companies and helping those who wants to transition to remote :) If just the writing part would be easier for me :))

@lailavona hopefully you'll find something valuable in the book that you can apply to the process ;)

@jan_sedivy Thanks Jan for the kind words ;) If any of you have some additional questions you can reach out anytime at my twitter @hellodusko

@simongu I wish this guide can help convince some folks to convert teams to remote or help those who are remote but struggeling to find out what the problem is and fix before deciding to go back to "office life"

@d_w_ostergen Thanks Dave, feel free to ping me on twitter @hellodusko if you have some questions or would wanna add something based on your experience working remotely.

@thomasmclaughlin Thanks Tom, I think we both learned some of those do's and don'ts while working at Mason :))

@mike_riess Thanks buddy :) As someone who never wrote a book before, this has been a tough journey to get it done. But here we are, hopefullyy you'll enjoy reading it ;)