Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work
Remote work expert David Tate wrote that when fearful CEOs talk about workplace culture, they’re really talking about workplace…
Category: Year Without Pants
Free digital version of The Year Without Pants (my book on Remote Work)
[UPDATE: the book is no longer free! Sorry if you missed it. We gave it away to all for…
Why Remote Workers Fail
[On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the archive). This week’s question is from Regina [330…
Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular?
I wrote the popular book The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & The Future of Work about my 18 months working…
My Automattic Anniversary
Four years ago, on August 4th 2010, I was hired at Automattic, makers of WordPress.com, as the first leader…
Why Culture Always Wins (An Excerpt from The Year Without Pants)
[This is an excerpt from The Year Without Pants, An Amazon.com best book of the year] Chapter 4: Why Culture…
How To Convince Your Boss To Try Something New
Powerful people often become conservative. Once they’re in charge, it’s easy to feel that the knowledge that helped them…
How Remote Work Improves Diversity
A good question about The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & The Future of Work from Sibylle, in a comment: I…
Free Webinar: Future of Work & The Year Without Pants (3/27)
Next Thursday Citrix will be hosting me with a live webinar about remote work and The Year Without Pants.…
Signed copy of The Year Without Pants to First 10 commenters
Hi folks. Its been a long time since I gave things away. Some of you subscribe directly by email…
Remote work @ WordPress.com by the numbers (Infographic)
[Update: I learned a lesson about infographic spam after posting this] Here’s a quick visual rundown on remote work and…
Famous programmer Leaves Google Because of Remote Work Ban
Yahoo is a curious poster child for banning remote work, as they’re not a company that’s doing very well.…
What If Managers Didn’t Get Paid More?
One of the many surprises from The Year Without Pants is that Automattic, makers of WordPress.com, doesn’t pay employees more…
FAQ about The Year Without Pants (with satisfying answers)
It has been a great few months for The Year Without Pants (the book about my year managing a team…
The Dangers of Faith In Data
Here are the notes from my Warm Gun SF keynote, based on one of the stories from The Year Without Pants (An…
The Year Without Pants Cover: how it was designed
I’ve previously written about how covers should be designed (See How To Design A Great Cover). My fifth book,…
Amazon.com names The Year Without Pants a best book of 2013
Last week Amazon.com announced its best business books of 2013 and The Year Without Pants made the list.
Video: The Year Without Pants lecture (@Google NYC)
From this month’s book tour, the good folks at Google posted the video from my talk. Q&A begins at…
Book Review: Remote: Office Not Required, by 37Signals
In writing The Year Without Pants, about my year working for the 100% remote organization at WordPress.com, I deliberately avoided…
Do You Need That Meeting?
I’m sitting in Kevin Hoffman‘s session at UI18 on Running Better Meetings. He makes good arguments about facilitation and visual…