0/ Remote work isn't exceptional as companies that are spread around multiple offices have done it for the last many years. The special sauce is communicating asynchronously as the default 💡 Here's a thread about why.
1/ 🌎 Communication between timezones becomes easy, which means that you can hire from anywhere in the world and truly build a stellar and diverse team.
2/ 🤔 The default communication becomes deep, thoughtful and insightful. People can respond calmly when they're ready. Deep work becomes the default way of working.
3/ 🏄‍♀️ People are happier as they don't need to plan their life around their work. For example, I can spend 2 hours with my son every morning, and nobody inside my async organization notices this.
4/ 🛑 Blocks becomes a non-issue as you are blocked by default. Everyone knows how to spend time productivity while waiting for an answer.
5/ 🤬 People have more time to reflect over things, so knee-jerk reactions become less frequent. This results in a great culture.
6/ 🌚 People can optimize their workdays on when they are most productive or most creative; instead of optimizing their workdays to a synchronized schedule.
It's also interesting that some of the most successful remote companies have implemented their own asynchronous communication tools (e.g., our Twist, Zapier's Async or Automattic's P2).
✍️ I've just published this tweetstorm on async communication as a post, with a lot more insights:

”Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive”

doist.com/blog/asynchron…
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24 Jul
0/ 🧵 At Doist, we have for 10+ years competed against Google, Microsoft, and Apple in the hyper-competitive market of todo apps. Some thoughts follow on how you can compete against trillion-dollar Goliaths.

I'll start with examples, and end with core principles.
1/ Some examples of companies that have successfully done it:
📹 Zoom built a $50bn+ company in a market where the Goliaths have operated for years.
🎧 Spotify built a $50bn+ company and a market leader in music as they competed head-on against Apple and Google.
2/ Some more examples:
🗂 Dropbox built a $10bn company even when Goliaths are preinstalling their solutions with their operative systems.
🛒 Shopify built a $100bn+ company in an e-commerce market dominated by Amazon.
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5 May
0/ 🧵 How can a small team get work done in the best possible way? At Doist, we have been at this for many years, and we have learned things the hard way. Here are some of the core lessons 👇
1/ 🔮 The team needs to have a clear vision of what they need to build with a well-defined problem and a solution space — before they start working on it.
2/ ⏳ Teams should work within an allotted time budget. Implement X the best way possible in Y amount of time. Working without constraints results in massive delays and scope creep because great people tend to go for “perfect” solutions.
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11 Jul 19
Over the last many years, Basecamp was a significant source of inspiration, but their book on product design is a hard read. Some thoughts follow where I disagree with their approach. Their book is located here: basecamp.com/shapeup
1/ A lot of interesting projects take longer than a six-week cycle, so it's strange to try to limit everything to fit an artificial time limit. We also work in cycles, but we accept that some ambitious projects can take multiple cycles to complete.
2/ The goal should be to build amazing things for the customers. The goal isn't to artificially limit scopes to fit cycles, or to keep your company or team small.
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18 May 19
Level, a similar service to Twist, is shutting down. A thread follows with some thoughts on starting a product these days. derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05…
The easiest path is to solve a problem you have. This way, you don’t have to second guess if you are solving a real problem, and you don’t have to do user research. We started Twist to solve problems we had with distractions of Slack, I built Todoist to manage my work and life.
The days of the MVP versions are over. The expectations are incredibly high, and people will not even entertain your solution if you don’t cover all the core things such as engineering, design, support, and marketing.
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10 May 19
0/ 💡 Some core things we've learned about retreats over the years. Our learning is based on 5 company-wide retreats around the world. This is a response to
1/ 💸 Retreats are expensive, most of ours have been $3000+ per employee. This cost is easily worth it, especially given that we don't spend anything on office leases.
2/ 🗺 Picking an inspiring location is critical as you want to create a great experience for people. Some of the best retreats we have done have been in Iceland 🇮🇸 and Chile 🇨🇱.
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20 Apr 19
0/ Some thoughts on metrics, and what we’ve learned over the years 📈
1/ When I started Todoist in 2007 I used to do SQL queries to figure out things. There were no dashboards. In hindsight, this might have been good because I just cared about building a great product and not about the numbers.
2/ Over the years, our metrics sophistication has grown, and we track a ton of things; too many things. We’ve even created a very powerful cohorts database that has tracked billions of events github.com/Doist/bitmapist
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