Podcast 087 - J Tower on Remote Work

Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast

J Tower is working from home. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet.

Show Notes:

• Coworking was discussed. Check out Global Coworking Map

• I believe the Steve Jobs quote referenced is: "A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players". You can hear a variation of it in this Steve Jobs video

• Some of the remote work news stories mentioned:

  • Marissa Mayer: Yahoos can no longer work from home

  • IBM, a Pioneer of Remote Work, Calls Workers Back to the Office

  • Reddit Gives Remote Employees Until End Of Year To Relocate To San Francisco

  • I think I mentioned GitHub in the podcast, but I may have been mistaken about that? I can’t find a news story about it. So, my mistake.

• Book: Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and DHH

• Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

• J Tower’s company is Trailhead Technology Partners

• J wrote a blog post called Working from Home for Fun and Profit

• Don’t forget to check out Beer City Code. It’s coming up soon! I’ll see you there!

J Tower is on Twitter.

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