The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off. Jocelyn K. Glei & 99U

As one achieves focus, the mind quiets. As the mind is kept in the present, it becomes calm. Focus means keeping the mind now and here. - W Timothy Gallwey

Best Practices for Letting Go of a Remote Team Member bit.ly/3zSqqc7 by Allan Christensen, reviewed by Shane Hastie

6 years into our journey with Twist, most companies would’ve quit. Radically changing the way people work is a hard battle. But we’re not afraid. Today, we’re doubling down on our bet against status-quo and launching a new Twist. 🧵 A thread about our biggest gamble yet:

In the Twist Future of Work Series, we're chatting with leaders who are building products/services to help shape the #FutureOfWork. In this edition, I sat down with Greg Caplan 🚀, CEO at @meetwithspot, to discuss the future of meetings. Read/listen/watch: bit.ly/3HND1SZ

Great line-up! 👏👏

🥳 Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 #MaterialDesignAwards! 🌀 Motion: @postit 🖥️ Large Screen: Todoist 🌑 Dark Theme: Aculix Learn more about the winners → goo.gle/3dU8FAy

I'm curious to hear from you remote/hybrid pros - how do you balance work vs team building, at offsite meetings & retreats? Have there been any activities that were especially impactful IRL? If you have any suggestions/resources/contacts I should connect with - please share 🙏

"[Async comms] is slower. Is that bad? Is being slow bad?... There’s a top speed you can go on a highway before you’re just being reckless, and it’s dangerous and you’re going to end up in a hospital, not at your destination faster." Justin Mitchell Yac Doist bit.ly/34TGgcs

Are Push Notifications Driving Your Users Away? buff.ly/3odTqYO

Async Chats with the Head of Remote at Doist → buff.ly/3HqyntA

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Mubbu If your team works in different time zones, I'd rather give Twist a try. It's way better for async work than Slack. Then use something else only for emergencies, like Telegram.

“ Since we’ve shifted from Slack to Twist as an organization, we’ve observed a decrease in internal emails, increased knowledge sharing across teams, and fewer active conversations during non-business hours.” — Amanda link.medium.com/9eIvo3akDob

5 ways to know if your remote employees are actually working 👀 1. The work is getting done. 2. The work is getting done. 3. The work is getting done. 4. The work is getting done. 5. The work is getting done.

Andreas Klinger 🦾 we switched from slack to twist.com and it was the best decision ever

Boundless Life cofounder Marcos Carvalho visits About Abroad today to show us what life is like in the little village of Sintra, Portugal, where he and 40 other families are living for 3 months, building community, educating their children, and giving back to the locals.

#WeAreHiring #ProductManager Doist ↓↓↓

...a newsletter + member community dedicated to making async-first the world's default way of working. You can check it out now at async.twist.com and sign up to become one of the founding members:

They say building culture on a distributed team is impossible. Well… we have been remote-first for over 15 years and today, we are SO honored to be awarded the most Vibrant Remote Work Culture Award at Running Remote 🏆🎉🥇 #runningremote