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This is the way - work around life, not the other way around. 🥰
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I love remote work and having bosses that trust you. In todays standup my coworker was like “I’m at the beach so I’ll be offline but I’ll still knock out todays tasks before Monday” and nobody cares lol
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I also like: "cause tension" 😈
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Some @parabol-isms that make me smile
– "Is it a feature or a bug?"
– "Don't pump the breaks, steer the wheel"
– "Hamsters in the pipes"
– "Let your tension be your guide"
– "Safe to try"
– "I can't see any more popcorn poppin"
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The biggest mistake I see companies make is trying to get too much work done on a retreat.
Connections get accelerate so much through great memories and shared experiences.
You can have everyone record footage for a vlog to let the memories carry through to the next retreat.
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Meeting your remote coworkers for the first time generally means you're on vacation together 😳
Our included *a lot* of pastries 🥐☕️❤️
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What do you call the head of the sales team in a product-led growth company? 🤔
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Here is my very angry column about anti-vaxxers who wear yellow stars -- and their compulsive self-comparison to Holocaust victims. It's also the story of the heroes who smuggled a typhus vaccine into the Warsaw Ghetto, and brave sabotage in Buchenwald.
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The partisan gap in Covid deaths has grown even larger.
October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in heavily Trump counties and heavily Biden counties widened.
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A valuable read, though you’ll be mad about the world for hours and days afterwards. twitter.com/RottenInDenmar
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I’m *extremely* here for this
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Are all SEO "audits" just bros mansplaining outdated irrelevant concepts? 🤔
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Surprisingly challenging to find sales leaders who can wrap their minds around this motion 🙃
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“Slack doesn't have to be sync” --> great post from the team @parabolco on how to use Slack more efficiently 
parabol.co/blog/slack-tip
parabol.co/blog/slack-tip5
Most advice in this realm is hella generic.
Not this thread. This thread came to play. 👇
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Struggling to connect on your remote team?
We've built a 67 person remote team that loves to work together while driving $29 million in annual revenue.
Here are 8 ideas we use for building a great culture in a distributed team:
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That's all folks!
Does that help? Did you learn? Did you not get enough? Want to save this for later?
No worries, there's a post for that:
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So: put it all in public channels!
If you name channels clearly, there's no such thing as too many channels.
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Last thing, perhaps hardest & most important:
5️⃣ “I feel personally responsible for solving this” ➡️ Make it public
At , 74% of messages sent and 83% of message views are in public channels 💃
That makes it easier to be async, help each other, and easier to learn.
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Using threads (how meta!) also helps - folks can search and find the *entire* conversation, rather than a snippet.
And: clever formatting can get extra 👀s on important threads.
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Now that you're well-insulated, you may start worrying that you're out of the loop.
4️⃣ “I’ll be out of the loop!” ➡️ Define practices for ‘staying in the loop’
Our team uses a Slack channel & workflow to share work updates every Friday #FridayShip
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Then, if you still have too many notifs, leave channels or mute channels, so you're only seeing relevant conversations.
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First, turn off any notification that wouldn't be a welcome interruption.
Per , that means: no sounds, no badges, no message previews.
Or take it a step further: don't use the Slack app at all, keep it in the browser. 🤯
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Now that you have ways to find the signal: HIDE.
3️⃣ “I can’t escape, it’s distracting or interrupting me” ➡️ Make it harder for Slack to find you
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Once you've figured out urgency, the challenge is signal vs noise - too much gets lost in the backscroll.
2️⃣ “I’m afraid I’ll forget” ➡️ Set reminders
Slack has some great features for this, like:
⏰ Reminders!
🙈 Hiding channels that don't have unread messages
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To communicate urgency:
⏰ Use an alert word, like 'code red' or 'pterodactyl', to make urgent messages stand out
🏠 Create an urgent channel
🚥 Try emoji like 🔴 or ❗ to communicate urgency
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Don't reply immediately:
"Reply by the end of the day: It's great [to] take a break from Slack for 3 hours to focus or do something else, but... everyone should be able to expect a reply by the end of the day."
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IMO, the hardest part is the *volume* of messages. It feels like the 🌎 is on 🔥... kinda always?
But urgent is actually the exception, not the rule. So, we should act like it.
1️⃣ “Everything is Urgent” ➡️ Communicate Urgency
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In 6+ years of working remotely, I've spent more work time on Slack than perhaps anywhere else.
Annnnddd it's not always great 😬
With a little help from some smart folks, here's what I've learned to make it better.🧵 👇
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This is powerful magic ✨💖
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I just brought a meeting to an end by saying "I don't want to talk about this anymore" so that's how my Monday is going.
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👇👇👇as usual, she’s v right
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If I was in the mood to start a new business (or if I was @itchio), I would build a "payment processor" (read: thin wrapper around Stripe) that lets players log in with Apple ID / Game Center / etc and remembers your payment info across games made by different devs/publishers.
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Y'all, this first TikTok from is SO. GOOD. that I've been patting myself on the back all afternoon for convincing her to join our team #humblebrag #sorrynotsorry
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Question for the Twitterverse: what's one way your team uses Slack or chat that you think is particularly clever or helpful?
I think most teams do this *badly* - let's build a list of better ways!
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Finneas is a key member of the team 🥰😝🥳
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Meet Finneas the Corgi & honorary member of Parabol! 
Likes:
- sticks 
- every human he's ever met 
- his @KingJames stuffed toy from @barkbox 
- literally all the food he can put in his mouth! 
He's a sweet, kind, and super positive doggo 
Happy Monday!
Likes:
- sticks
- every human he's ever met
- his @KingJames stuffed toy from @barkbox
- literally all the food he can put in his mouth!
He's a sweet, kind, and super positive doggo
Happy Monday!
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Why are Americans so angry these days? The answer is trickier than most people think.
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This is such great framing!
Like any community, your work community needs human connections, intentional habits, and more.
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work is not family, but it IS community — as remote workers, we have to make space to create a tight-knit community
and read-only status meetings won’t get us there
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The image you have in your head of who seeks abortion is likely wrong.
It is inhumane to deny this to people.
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Tonight I'm thinking about Imani, who had a condom break the first time she had sex. Six and a half weeks.
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You should read this, but it will ruin your day more.
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By the grace of God I caught my unwanted college pregnancy early and was able to have a medication abortion- a pill and a suppository and some cramping and bleeding. I lived in Texas at the time. I was 20 years old. The father was in school on a preacher’s son scholarship.
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This is heartbreaking.
Between voter suppression, this bill, permitless carry - it’s a devastating time to be a Texan. It’s getting worse.
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