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Matt Galligan Profile picture
@mg
Apr 27, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
We will hear this from many companies in the coming year and beyond.

As companies transition from early reluctance and lack-of-productivity, they will be forced to adapt. Those adaptations will cause them to realize that distributed work is both possible and can be productive.
Another one

https://t.co/GVvmZygsEi
Another one

Shopify: https://t.co/e5E7qVk7hZ
Going to keep this thread going as major companies announce their #remotework plans.

Forgot to include Twitter, so here it is from May 12:
buzzfeednews.com/article/alexka…
From May 18:

Square: theverge.com/2020/5/18/2126…

#remotework
Facebook is taking a measured, but big step towards a permanent approach to distributed work

Zuck says about 50% of their workforce may be remote in the next 5-10 years.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
Next up: @Box:

Though they were already remote work @Upwork is now going #remotefirst

https://t.co/RyNeggaZyR
Slack employees can now work remotely on a permanent basis!
Alphabet is now keeping its entire workforce remote until at least summer 2021. That's just massive on a ton of levels. So many industries will be changed forever from 2020 on. Examples:

Commercial real estate
Service industry
Education
Child care

wsj.com/articles/googl…
Okta will allow the vast majority of its team to work remotely on a permanent basis now. Some 85% of their 2,600 employees are expecting to work remotely under the new policy. Huge.

cnn.com/2020/08/27/tec…
Salesforce employees (all 49,000 of them) can work remotely until August 2021. Hopefully by then they'll be able to adopt a more permanent policy.

Other good news here is that they're offering parents six additional weeks of paid time off.

businessinsider.com/salesforce-emp…

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Aug 21, 2021
Growing up in Central Illinois, I had very little exposure to diverse cuisine. If your only exposure was visiting the Illinois State Fair you might find yourself at the “Village of Cultures.” 🤣

The name is pretty cringey but take note: before it used to be the “Ethnic Village.”
So let’s go on a tour of the “cultures” as they exist in today’s Illinois State Fair, the year of our lord 2021, running counter clockwise. 👇🏼
First we have Mediterranean…which I’ll admit is broad but most Americans might assume is one whole culture.

But the first thing on the menu is a Mediterranean version of the local speciality, the “Horseshoe”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe…

😧
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Sep 24, 2020
Cautionary tale for anyone with less tech savvy folks in their lives. My parents were almost scammed yesterday by someone calling and claiming to be Apple.

They happen to be visiting me right now, and if not for that the scam might have been successful.
They used social engineering and a series of seemingly escalating events to make it seem like they were indeed being hacked in real time.

Somehow they had the last 4 digits of a debit card. Unclear if they unknowingly gave that up earlier in the call or what…
The scammers claiming to be Apple told my mom that her phone had been hacked, that the hackers were fraudulently charging their credit cards, and they needed to install software to prevent the hack.

At this point they installed a screen viewer app.
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Jul 30, 2020
After digging into the weeds with @discourse, I think it’s an extremely underrated platform, especially as an internal solution for asynchronous communication and documentation.

discourse.org
What I like about it:

🛠 It’s open source and extensible with plugins
💬 Its UX for handling multi-threaded conversation is powerful
📕 Threads can seamlessly transition to evergreen documentation
📫 Default asynchronous means less chatty, more thinky
Many open source projects use it to coordinate conversations among 100% distributed and mostly part-time teams. That’s not coincidence.

Companies now finding themselves remote can learn a lot from FOSS development practices. How they communicate being one of them.
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Jul 7, 2020
Just got a COVID test from @cvspharmacy since I traveled this weekend and visited my family.

Went really smoothly and fast too. Not bad at all. Only downside is that it’s a few days wait for the result.
On day 8 of “a few days”. Here’s what I now see when trying to view my test results. Image
Day 11. Still no results back from @cvspharmacy Image
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Jun 20, 2020
tl;dr on my experience with hey.com so far:

🤩 This is the best change to email since Gmail, and I don't say that lightly.
👏🏼 @basecamp has dropped an impressive 1.0, and I'm excited to see where it goes next.
👇🏼 Here's a mini review and hopes for the future
First, I love how it completely re-imagines the entire setup.

Tired:
❌ Anyone can email you
❌ Traditional inbox
❌ Sent folder
❌ Archive

Wired:
✅ Screen incoming senders
✅ Sent, Archive, Seen, all now "Previously Seen"
✅ Triage "Reply Later" and pins as separate actions
The first thing to get used to was that the traditional archive was gone. I've been using my inbox as a "todo" list for easily a decade (without much success).

With HEY I either reply now, set up to reply later, pin it, or just let it go to "Previously Seen."
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Apr 22, 2020
First episode of Amateur Hour is live. It’s not good but @ShaneMac told me to upload it by end of day today, because perfect is the enemy of good.

I've never really done video before, so this is all one grand experiment but I'm excited.

Here goes:
The whole premise behind Amateur Hour is learning new things and solving problems together with someone. We’ll explore new products, tips & tricks with apps folks already use, and maybe try to learn a thing or two.
It’s going to take me a minute to figure out the best ways to shoot, record, edit, etc. but hopefully there’s a reasonably decent show soon. It was fun putting this one together, but boy do I feel like I’ve got the training wheels back on for this whole video stuff.
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