Tools and stacks
Free Tiers That Survive a Real Team: Five Tools Compared
Four of five tools marketed a free tier that a working team could use, and all four hit a limit…
andy rodman
Meeting culture
Camera On or Off: What Four Weeks of Switching Changed
In a four-week trial across 61 calls, cameras were on for 78 percent of participant-minutes in week one and 31…
Async workflows
The Async Design Review: 48 Hours Instead of One Hour
Nineteen comments arrived in the first hour of a live design review, and eleven of them contradicted each other. The…
Meeting culture
The Retros That Stopped Producing Actions: Rebuilding a Monthly Ritual
Four consecutive retrospectives produced 37 sticky notes and 2 completed actions. The team had a ritual with no output, and…
Async workflows
Decision Records: 31 Decisions in One Quarter and What They Changed
Thirty-one decisions were written down in a quarter by a team that had never kept a record, and 12 of…
Tools and stacks
Paying per Seat or per Project: A Twelve-Month Cost Trace
A team of 22 spent 4,180 euros on per-seat software and 1,940 euros on per-project software in twelve months, and…
Workspace setup
A Kitchen Table Desk: Six Weeks of Light and Posture Measurements
The desk faced a window with a light level of 4,200 lux at midday and 40 lux after sunset, a…
Remote collaboration
Screen Sharing at 3 Mbps: A Field Test Across Four Countries
Four reviewers on connections between 3 and 6 Mbps shared their screens for a week, and the median frame rate…
Workspace setup
The Second Monitor Question: Measuring Task Switching at Two Sizes
Two weeks with a single 27-inch screen produced 41 percent more window switches per hour than two weeks with a…