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Friday.app
Company blog · friday.app · on HN as lukethomasproductivitybusinesscareer
Friday.app is the company blog at friday.app, writing about productivity, business and career. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Show HN: I wrote a 200-page book on remote work (it's free)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Friday's blog for its remote work information and the book "The Anywhere Operating System". One commenter wants the site's remote work content preserved as a static site after the product shut down.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: I wrote a 200-page book on remote work (it's free)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
- Friday.app is shutting down2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-04
What Hacker News says?
A lot of this depends on people on the maker's schedule vs. the manager's schedule. Or put another way, some people like the office environment because it matches how they communicate and get things done. The office environment is built around the idea of real-time conversations, which can be helpful for collaboration if it's not overused. With that being said, the office (especially open-offices) take this idea way…
Comment linking /office-vs-remote-distance-communication
on “Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study”Submitted Friday.app is shutting down as a story · 111 points
HN discussionA couple thoughts: 1.) communicate asynchronously as much as possible. If you have a synchronous conversation like a meeting, make sure there is a written representation of what was discussed. If it doesn't persist, it doesn't exist 2.) Understand that implementing a wiki by itself will not work. There's a gravitational pull to throw a bunch of junk in it (like a file cabinet). Things become out of date and each per…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?”Submitted Results vs. Hours: creating a results-focused work environment as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI've spent 3 years iterating on this idea and it was inspired by the product PG mentioned in his tweet. Any feedback is appreciated! https://www.friday.app
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on “Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email”Submitted What is causing the rise of Remote Work? as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis is a great point. The issue is that the current best practice advice is to use a wiki. Wikis are riddled with problems. They become out of date quickly. They need a librarian over time to organize the content in a way that's meaningful. There's also no "habit loop" to encourage people to regularly contribute content. Right now, wikis are a tax on the most productive people in a company. If someone asks you the…
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on “Encouraging a culture of written communication”Submitted The 5/25 Warren Buffet Rule as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMost workplace communication tools are focused on improving the efficiency of communication. I think of this as laying "pipes". It's never been easier to jump on a video call or ping someone in Slack or email. What happens is that the information/communication doesn't flow on a repeatable or predictable basis. What people really need when remote is a way to help create and automate a series of communication habits/w…
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on “Traits of good remote leaders”Submitted Remote Work Market Map for 2021 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy journaling habit started with Ohlife.com way back in 2014. I found the idea of quickly recapping my week to be therapeutic., plus it was great to see entries over time. I ended up building a product ( https://www.friday.app/ ) to make this easy and automated. While it's built for teams to share updates and reflect (think weekly updates, retros, etc), there's "single-player" mode available too. I like the digital…
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on “The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)”Submitted Why we don't serve alcohol at our events as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey, I'm the author of the post and have been working remotely for 6 years. There is no replacement for meeting up in person periodically. Anyone who tells you it's not a key requirement of remote work is foolish. Smart teams + companies have figured this out and do regular meetups. With that being said, there are ways to "maintain" relationships with coworkers. I wrote a big post about this last week you might like…
Comment linking /build-relationships-remote-team
on “The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back”Submitted Remote Team Meetups: A Complete Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is great advice. As an employee, I've found success with the following: - Send an agenda beforehand. This gives your manager an idea about what you'd like to discuss, so then they can prepare themselves and/or not get caught off-guard. - At the end, I try to ask, "do you have anything for me?", which typically opens the door for them giving you feedback/thoughts if they have it. It also is a nice way to prep my…
Comment linking /p/employee-1-1-meetings
on “Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?”Submitted High Output Management Summary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn my opinion, any tool that allows teams/individuals to publish/post updates and subscribe to other teams/individuals' posts or updates can work. Bonus points if you can have threaded conversations (like HN), examples: - https://friday.app/ - https://wordpress.com/p2/ - https://www.yammer.com/ (is this still a thing? used it like 10 years ago) - etc... We also used slack (or equivalent... also used hipchat, and eve…
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on “70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows”Submitted Friday – We are shutting down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is right on. Slack's pricing is based on regular usage, so they have an incentive to keep you distracted (to put it bluntly). Microsoft sees chat as a piece of an overall communication "puzzle". They have Sharepoint for more persistent information and Yammer for "outer-loop" communication. My startup ( https://www.friday.app/ ) is based around the idea that there needs to be a "home" for the most important stuf…
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on “Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft”Submitted Show HN: I wrote a 200-page book on remote work (it's free) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTotally agree - I wrote a rebuttal to the concept of "virtual office" tools for distributed teams a few minutes ago: https://www.friday.app/remote-work-virtual-office
Comment linking /remote-work-virtual-office
on “Building a walkie-talkie for remote work”Submitted How to create a wiki for your remote company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAny wiki software suffers from the problem that only a small percentage of the company uses it. It's essentially a tax on the most productive people. If someone asks you for the same thing 8x, you will write it down and share it via a wiki. I've spend years trying to solve the problem - how do you get the average person writing more at work? What I've come up with resembles a company "journal", but helps you automat…
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on “P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free”Submitted Remote Work Mental Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne of the things I appreciated about Friday was the information you all provided about remote work, and the book you wrote named "The Anywhere Operating System"[0]. Would you be willing to keep the information you provided up as a statically hosted website so that the knowledge is not lost to the ether of the internet, accessible only via archive.org[1]? [0] https://friday.app/anywhere [1] https://web.archive.org/w…
Comment linking /anywhere
on “Friday.app is shutting down”Submitted Reducing Asynchronous Miscommunication as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi HN! tl;dr - I wrote a 200 page user manual for team leaders and CEOs to navigate working from anywhere and open sourced it online for free: https://friday.app/anywhere I'm Luke, the founder of Friday.app. 8 years ago, I first read Remote by 37 Signals and it's what caused me to start working remotely back in 2013. At the time, the book laid out a case that more organizations should offer remote work. Over the yea…
Comment linking /anywhere
on “Show HN: I wrote a 200-page book on remote work (it's free)”Submitted Why Project Management Tools Fail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synchronous daily standups are a waste of time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Office vs. Remote: how distance changes the way we communicate at work as a story · 2 points
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