S02 Episode 05b: Remote Work

The Tao of WAO

Part two of our remote work episodefocused more on the day to day tools and processes that we use to work remotely. Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen How we work - some nerding out? https://usesthis.com/interviews/clay.shirky/ https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ https://joplinapp.org/ https://medium.com/@LauraHilliger/tabby-mctabface-3bff8661ef70 https://ifttt.com Our gear for the podcast Laura - Focusrite preamp: https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-2i2-studio - Speakers: Tannoy - Sony Bluetooth headphones Doug -Blue Snowball mic -Anker headphones "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "That having been said, I actually don't want a "dream setup." I know people who get everything in their work environment just so, but current optimization is long-term anachronism. I'm in the business of weak signal detection, so at the end of every year, I junk a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones. [...] Some of those changes stick, most don't, but since every tool switch involves a period of disorientation and sub-optimal use, I have to make myself be willing to bang around with things I don't understand until I do understand them. This is the opposite of a dream setup; the thing I can least afford is to get things working so perfectly that I don't notice what's changing in the environment anymore." (Clay Shirky)