I’ve been working remote for over 5 years. Here are my lessons. 1) work from home is really hard. Home is home, work is work. You need either a fully isolated

I’ve been working remote for over 5 years. Here are my lessons. 1) work from home is really hard. Home is home, work is work. You need either a fully isolated work room where you only work or go to some co-working space which is work. Dress like you’re going to work. No pajama work days. Best is when you have couple of folks in same city that make a remote satellite office. I’ve seen great success with many satellite offices. 2) ensure you have good internet connection, a good headset with noise cancellation mic and speakers, a good camera that works in low light. A good powerful machine. MacBook pros are prolly the most popular. 3) Out of sight, out of mind is a real thing. Reply to messages within a certain timeframe, say an hour. I used to have morning hours which was reviews and discussion. I replied immediately and was open to any interruptions. Evening hours I liked to get 3-4 hours of in the zone focus. 4) write things down. Google docs, slack, wikis are great tools. For every project I used to have a team doc with overall eagle eye plan + weekly notes. What happened last week? what metrics/impact we moved? What we’re gonna do this week, why we’re gonna do it and what metrics/impact we think will be made. Anyone could look at the doc and had a good idea where things were headed. Documenting progress is just as important as actually making the progress. 5) There’s usually some work timezone where everyone is expected to have at-least 4 hours in common. Make use of that. Set 1:1s, talk about feelings, ideas, overall health of business, kitchen sink conversations etc. 6) remote folks sometimes end up being over worked. Know when to shut off and switch to “non-work” mode. It’s important.