Open and Async: the remote-work playbook is out

A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →Most companies didn’t go remote. They shipped everyone a laptop, bolted Zoom onto the same approval chains, and called it a day. That wasn’t remote work—it was office work in sweatpants: the same meetings, the same status theater, the same “quick syncs,” just piped through a webcam. Working from home ≠ working remotely. (share this quote) There’s a world of difference between being forced out of the office and intentionally building a distributed, async culture. That difference is what Open and Async is about—and as of today, you can read it. Open and Async is the opinionated, practical playbook for the two practices that make distributed work actually work: working in the open and communicating asynchronously. Async is the operating system; remote is the hardware. It’s how the next generation of tech leaders already think—and it’s a learnable skill for everyone else. If you’ve spent any time on this blog, the argument will feel…