In this episode, Troy Davis and Eric Lindvall, of Papertrail, talk about seeking out and choosing the right teammates, team overlap, and organic growth.
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Show Notes
Troy Davis (twitter / github / blog)
Eric Lindvall (twitter / github / blog)
Papertrail (website / twitter)
00:57 – How their distributed team evolved
01:43 – Finding the right teammate(s)
04:10 – Living situations
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- Eric: Stays just North of Seattle, WA
- Troy: Travels: Seattle to Portland to Sol,South Korea to Bangkok to San Francisco to NYC
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04:48 – Airbnb
05:42 – Troy’s travelling
07:02 – Team interaction and dividing work
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Based on customer feedback
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08:42 – Avoiding using predictions and promises
10:18 – Work tactics
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- Rare standups
- Dealing with timezones
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11:15 – Team overlap
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You are responsible for how you should spend your own time
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13:27 – Maintaining continuity & company values
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Growing organically
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Github as an example
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15:54 – Advice for distributed teams
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- There are no shortcuts
- Transparency
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17:26 – Arguing
20:43 – Papertrail: Hosted log management by and for engineers