Inside Remote

Episode 5: Darren Murph on how to build Remote Culture

Episode Summary

Darren Murph shares tips and tricks on how to travel and work remotely as well as how Gitlab approaches building remote work culture.

Episode Notes

This week we had an interesting chat with Darren Murph from Gitlab.

Darren leads all-remote initiatives at GitLab, one of the world's largest 100% remote companies. He also holds a Guinness World Record in publishing.

Explorer at heart, he had travelled in over 50 countries and all 50 US states and worked as a digital nomad. He's passionate about enabling remote work for all and advocating for adoption. This episode is covering a lot of different topics. Darren is such all rounder I am sure we will be recording a new episode soon!

In this episode we talk about:

• How to be a digital nomad
• Rules for building remote culture
• Rules for running teams with 900+ people
• What onsite teams can learn from remote teams
• Ways to create bonds in remote teams
• Video calls vs Audio calls
• How to operate efficiently
• How transparency benefits to company
• How did Darren set a World Record

Notes and links:

• Engadget
• Gitlab Values
• Gitlab Handbook
• Sid Sibrandij
• Meetings instructions
• Informal Communication
• Part-remote
• Benefits
• GitLab Blog
• Typora

Darren Murph

• Website
• Instagram

Credits:

• Jan Jenko for header photo
• Gramatik for intro music