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.
