Priya Raghavan ·
Remote work suits people who are already good at writing things down, and punishes people who are not
If decisions in your team happen verbally and are never recorded, remote will feel isolating and political no matter how good the video setup is. The team's documentation habits predict the experience better than the policy does.
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