In this article, I explain how asynchronous communication can actually distract workers by resulting in significant context switching, particularly for junior makers. Then, I explain how to balance synchronous and asynchronous communication.…
Doug and I built Pragli, a virtual office for remote teams. And last week, we did our first marketing stunt to promote the product. We worked remotely on a U-Haul in San Francisco.…
In this Social Signals installment, I describe the issues with signaling availability and presence in text channels, and how we built voice channels into Pragli to help remote workers gain more social context into the conversations that are happening in their team.…
Teams vary on two key metrics: remoteness and working hour overlap. In this post, I highlight the unique strengths and challenges of each type of remote team and summarize keys for success with each one.…
Pragli's A/V communication is inspired by a walkie-talkie, rather than a phone call. In this article, I'll explain why we chose a walkie-talkie, some hiccups we ran into when implementing a walkie-talkie, and how it ended up looking in Pragli.…
It was obvious that we needed to do something. Our users were getting increasingly annoyed at the bugs that were constantly popping up. We were moving fast and shipping a lot of features - but in the process, also breaking things.…
In this post, I'll explain how to use and how I implemented useDbDatum / useDbData, two hooks for generically loading data from Firebase RTDB.…
Last month, we started to get concerning bug reports from our users that they couldn’t authenticate with Google directly inside of the Pragli desktop application. Here’s the error message that they were seeing:You are trying to sign in from a browser or app that doesn’t allow…
You signed up for Pragli, followed our getting started guide, and invited your teammates, but now you're wondering - how should I use this thing? This post provides best practices.…
Calendars rule my life. I schedule all my meetings through Google Calendar and make sure that any conversation that I plan to have is captured in an event. It's safe to say that most people these days are pretty similar.But, the second most valuable aspect of my calendar has…
