Chase Warrington, the Head of Business Development at Doist and remote work leader is the guest of my latest episode of the Remote Work Movement Podcast.
I am a big fan of Chase and being able to spend 1 hour talking with him about the future of work, managing teams and Doist lifestyle is an opportunity I can never miss.
Probably one of the coolest persons in the remote work world (you, reading this, you are also amazing).
Show Notes:
01:59 – How Chase feels for speaking in 10000 events during 3 months
03:26 – Importance of the conferences
07:25 – How did Chase found about remote work?
09:04 – How to choose the place where to live next
11:33 – Why should companies hire digital nomads instead of just normal people?
12:50 – What was the biggest challenge when travelling?
14:48 – Favorite coworking space in the world
15:54 – Can the hybrid system really work for the companies?
17:17 – Any lessons to learn in case of a hybrid system?
20:27 – Starting remote since day one
21:49 – Why is synchronous communication better than synchronous in distributed teams?
23:31 – How can we actually connect if the communication is not synchronous?
25:14 – Are there any touch-points every week, for example, that are synchronous?
28:19 – Is there something about remote work that changed Chase’s opinion?
32:29 – Chase is creating content about remote work
33:13 – Why producing long-form quality content and what is the strategy behind it?
34:31 – Chase’s favourite articles
36:17 – Why is it so important for the companies to write and promote remote work?
39:25 – Is there any companies stepping up and saying ‘we also want to have a strong voice in remote work’?
42:59 – Why building the tools and how can they actually help remote companies?
45:15 – Building projects on the way
45:29 – What are the key factors that make Doist so different from slack or from other competitors? Is there something special about it?
48:05 – How to go when there are too many tasks in one day to prioritize?
51:47 – How will be the next 10 years of the next 5 from now in terms of the new normal, will still resistance exist?
54:49 – Are there any major challenges that we still have to solve to see this utopia of having more distributed remote work teams? Is there something that we need to fix before going down that way?
57:47 – Doist vision in ten years
59:18 – What is the single thing that would help companies implement remote work easily?
01:01:21 – Hot to know more about Doist
01:02:17 – Final message from Chase
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