Simon Joliveau Breney

The last step is shielding time in your calendar for reading, research, and writing. It could be a couple of hours on Sunday evening, or shorter sessions throughout the week. This way, you won’t let your inner critic decide when you’re ready to write (the answer would be: never ).

I’ve spent years reading, experimenting, and gathering ideas about this. And while I won’t claim to have the secret recipe to cure all issues, there’s one thing all successful remote teams have in common:

they fight the siloing of information as if their survival depends on it.

Because it does.

Yesterday I told my therapist that when I left last week, I felt like a baby: dumb and small, sad and fumbling like an animal, uncertain, unaware. But that felt good: all swagger melted away, all pride evaporated or dripping into the wet ground, no gilded guiding grievances, no wistful wisdom, no fanciful fairy tales that make sad animals sound

Moving from feature teams to empowered product teams is at the core of changing how you solve problems, and this involves introducing real product discovery skills. Yet it’s easy to just continue doing the design and development of new features, but now pretend this is product discovery.

The key is whether or not the solution generates the necessary