Remote work isn't failing. Your playbook is.

Most companies didn't go remote. They just digitized the office. Open & Async is the opinionated, GitHub-tested playbook for building distributed teams that actually thrive: working in the open, defaulting to async, and measuring impact over hours. A decade of hard-won practice, distilled into moves you can steal today.

I'm a product leader for developer platforms and open source. Over a decade at GitHub, I was a product manager for trust and safety, shipping 500+ features and the github.com API endpoints behind them; led a bottom-up rewrite of GitHub Pages; and wrote Licensee, the open source library behind GitHub's license detection. Most recently I owned the internal platform 4,000+ GitHub employees use to get work done. I'm also an attorney, a former Presidential Innovation Fellow, and the author of Open and Async.

📖 Full bio · 📗 Open & Async (my new book: get it now)

• Why everything should have a URL
• Why you should work asynchronously
• Why open source
• Leaders show their work
• Manage like an engineer
• Cathedral vs Bazaar People Management

• How I over-engineered Halloween with two hacked Furbies
• The rule of no surprises
• Your documentation quality is your AI quality now
• It's JIF: the Open and Async audiobook is out
• Accessible by default: writing a book like software

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Member since May 2010 · First pull request: robflaherty/Emphasis#2, April 2011 · First issue: Automattic/edit-flow#11, December 2011 · 3,013 pull requests · 1,690 issues