[iamcasen]

It really looks like this guy found his calling, good for him! I'm impressed his managed to keep his organization healthy with 700 remote employees, that takes some real business/management talent.

In my own business, we are a remote team of 6 and we do pretty well. The way we've made it work so far is by doing very little collaboration, and instead opting to each have our own focus with little overlap. There are times when I'd really love to have some other engineers to whiteboard with and collaborate on difficult problems, but that seems impossible to do remotely. At least very easily.

[sytse]

Thanks! What we do for remote brainstorming is using indentation in Google Docs. We find that most ideas can be represented by a tree structure. We use indentation to indicate what is connected. You can't easily do arrows between different ideas but I've seen it work on almost every case.

BTW We're trying to bring real-time collaboration to GitLab issues so you can do the same in GitLab. I spend some time on that this weekend https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21473#note_301...

[machiaweliczny]

What's the problem with starting screen sharing? That's how we do it and it works quite well. (Same timezone though)