Remote Work
Busyness as a Proxy for Productivity
"In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner." This is how Cal Newport defines busyness as a proxy for
Mobility is Currency
I've already written about why the manufacturing jobs aren't coming back and the opportunity for remote work to provide a way forward [https://www.fredperrotta.com/remote-work-small-towns]. Today, let's take it one step further. Mobility is currency. If you can't move to
No Jobs are Coming: How Remote Work Can Save Small Towns
For the last year, I’ve been describing my hometown as “the place reporters go to profile Trump supporters.” Unfortunately, regardless of what Trump says, no jobs are coming [https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-proposals-wont-help-the-white-working-class-or-the-urban-poor/] to towns like my hometown, New Castle, Pennsylvania. Why would they? I would never start a
Why We Work Remotely
I would love to tell you that we had a grand scheme to build a distributed company back in 2009. Before remote work was trendy. Before anyone other than Basecamp was talking about it. The truth is that our remote company was an accident. Jeremy and I had the idea