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Communication is hard: Some thoughts on one aspect of remote working, after 18 months

Nimmo on October 20, 2018

I make no secret of the fact that I love remote working. I don't tend to make much mention of the most difficult aspect of it though: communicating...
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Kamal Mustafa

We also have this as rule #1 in our internal guideline - Always assume good faith from the other side. But I think you explain it much better in "try to interpret things generously".

Btw, we also shared our thoughts on communication challenge in remote work here - blog.xoxzo.com/2016/04/22/the-comm....

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Nimmo

Ah, cheers for sharing. :) Will give it a read. And yeah, although it's really hard to actually do regularly in practice, I do believe it's probably one of the most important skills to keep yourself sane whilst working remotely.

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Sdu

On God! Your portfolio site is so amazing

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Nimmo

Aw, thanks!