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by Diane Tate

CATS

I love ForwardJS and the opportunity it gives me to explore something different and significant. This year I teamed up with my Mozilla colleague Chris Riley, interviewing him on the future of Internet policy (which he heads up for us).

An overview is here, Chris’ full recap here, and the the video here — but here’s the spoiler: Competition, Algorithms, Tracking and Security.

Of course this is not meant to diss the Zig.p.s. some of my other ForwardJS talks: Creating a Strong Geek Culture, Being Effective in a Virtual World, and Building Trust Before Code: Unpacking the Weekly Retrospective. 

by Diane Tate

Still Weird, Still Awesome Austin

2015 marked my 4th year not-in-a-row at South by Southwest. My observations from last year still largely hold true, though this year some of the crowds seem to have staved off (Mykel, my Austinite buddy, speculated that some of this may be from key sponsorship changes this year – from Chevrolet to Mazda and from Frito-Lay to…McDonalds…) and I’m not going to disagree: I sure didn’t head over to the Golden Arches area. That said, there is such a plethora of rich, meaningful content and amazing people all in one spot, it still deserves a go. Continue reading →

by Diane Tate

What is all the fuss?

It’s hard not to love Gilda Radner or SNL. And I’ll go one step further: for me, it’s impossible not to love Emily Litella. She never understood why people made such a fuss over things.

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In 2015, I think Emily would be asking what all the fuss is about remote working (or maybe she’d ask what the fuss is about demote twerking…hint: you need to watch those episodes to understand).

Distributed teams really got their legs with the advent of open source projects and are becoming increasingly mainstream…but are not without their drama. My short presentation at yesterday’s always-awesome Forward 2 conference dispels some common fears and myths about remote work, and provides some tips on making distributed teams awesome. Enjoy!