Episode 5: Darren Murph on how to build Remote Culture

Inside Remote

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