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People seem to have some subtle insecurities around broadcasting their activities which contributes a lot to the problem of distributed teams. Ideally all communication goes to everyone and everyone can apply their own client-side filters for what they want to care about. The problem is people want to present a certain face up the org and a different one to their peers so they PM each other and create isolated channels of communication (distribution lists, slack channels, etc). Now have some cognitive overhead of whom to loop in when which creates some other complications because it means if you're receiving a message it's explicit rather than implicit. TLDR - broadcast everything to everyone by default and create a culture of transparency.



That's impressive. Do they use open channels to communicate everything? compensation? Financials?


Well they do have a compensation calculator on their job listings along with the reasoning




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