Remote work isn't failing. Your playbook is.
Most companies didn't go remote — they just digitized the office. Open & Async is the opinionated, GitHub-tested playbook for building distributed teams that actually thrive: working in the open, defaulting to async, and measuring impact over hours. A decade of hard-won practice, distilled into moves you can steal today.
Ben Balter is the former Director of Hubber Enablement at GitHub, where he ensured all Hubbers can do their best (remote) work. An attorney and open source advocate, he's spent over a decade at GitHub championing distributed collaboration, AI fluency, and open source philosophies — from the White House to the world's largest developer platform.
📖 Full bio · 📗 Open & Async (my new book — get it now)
- Why everything should have a URL
- Why you should work asynchronously
- Why open source
- Leaders show their work
- Manage like an engineer
- Cathedral vs Bazaar People Management
- It's pronounced JIF. The Open and Async audiobook is out.
- Accessible by default: writing a book like software
- How I over-engineered my book
- Open and async on the Overcommitted podcast
- Open and Async: the remote-work playbook is out
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