Open and Async: The collaborative software development playbook for remote and distributed teams
Working from home working remotely.
Your company survived the pandemic by shipping everyone a laptop, bolting Zoom onto existing workflows, and declaring victory. That wasn't remote work. That was office work in sweatpants - same meetings, same approval chains, same "quick sync" culture, just piped through a webcam.
Open and Async is the playbook for the teams that actually figured it out. Drawn from more than a decade at GitHub - the company that's been remote-first since before it was fashionable - it's an opinionated, battle-tested guide to the two practices that make distributed work succeed: radical transparency and asynchronous communication. Async is the operating system; remote is the hardware.
For managers
Build teams that ship without constant synchronous coordination. Create a documentation culture that scales across time zones. Retain your best people by respecting their time, their focus, and their intelligence - while advancing a career built on outcomes, not optics.
For individual contributors
Become visible, effective, and promotable without hallway politics or performative face time. Build a career on the strength of your work, not the luck of your seating chart.
Inside you'll learn:
Why everything should have a URL
How to treat meetings as escalation, not default
How to measure impact over input
Patterns for leading across time zones
How to navigate resistance to change
How to write decisions that outlive the meeting
How to make the shift stick long after the novelty wears off
Stop digitizing the office. Start building something better.
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