#94: Twitter's Remote-Work Free Strategy Option

For remote workers:

The manifold benefits of Remote or Hybrid are beginning to crystallize, a few of which are: No Commute, Live Anywhere, Increase Opportunity and Access, Find Better Talent, More time with family and friends.

Some will return to physically co-working with strangers, and some employers trapped in the past will force people to go to offices, but the illusion that the office was about work will be shattered forever, and companies that hold on to that legacy will be replaced by companies who embrace the antifragile nature of distributed organizations.

The question is no longer if you work remote but how much. Remote work is the logical evolution of digital work. And the best-practices of remote teams are often learnings for all digital knowledge work teams.

In the last few decades we have seen tremendous technical breakthroughs in the latencies and tooling possible to remove these constraints. Across the world, whether in productivity apps or in national governance, there will be a transition period as our norms and processes adapt to this tightening of the collaboration feedback loop. But perhaps I r... See more

What we have learned — what we were forced to learn — during the COVID lockdowns has permanently shattered these assumptions. It turns out many of the best jobs really can be performed from anywhere, through screens and the internet. It turns out people really can live in a smaller city or a small town or in rural nowhere and still be just as produ... See more

As Ben Thompson put it, it’s not work-from-home; it’s work-from-internet.