0220 - The Extreme Digital Nomad (TEDN) - Roland Tritsch

Our hosts are Laksh Sharma and Wassym Nait Oubihi

Today we’re talking with Roland Tritsch, a software craftsman/engineer/architect/manager, about founding, sustaining, and growing local/remote work environments for globally distributed software teams.

·       To start, we love your website The Extreme Digital Nomad (TEDN), can you tell us about the meaning behind the title?

·       So, we are studying global outsourcing and offshoring in digital industry across a range of dimensions of closeness and distance, like cultural, linguistic, political, geographic... Should we think of the virtual/physical as a dimension in its own right? 

·       Talk about the pluses and minuses for both in-office work and work-from-home…

·       How do you think about organising for remote work? [pod, hub, tribe, squad…]

·       Let’s take a new-hire, fresh out of college. How do they start and grow their career as a remote worker?

·       Isn’t it this a recipe for “lonely, wired and tired?” How do you build-in personal well-being…

Okay, we’ll end there. Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, further reading:

Roland’s website and blog: https://tedn.life/

Distances - Know them. Manage them. – (link)

Hub-First vs. Remote-First vs. Pod-First – (link)

Hybrid Work: Surprising Lessons from Gen Z, Brian Elliott on MIT Sloan Management Review – (link)

The interview team: Laksh Sharma, Shi Li, Songhao Liu, Wassym Nait Oubihi.

Extra Podcasts:

The Story of Software episode with Roland Tritsch, Sr. Director of Engineering, Community https://www.zartis.com/podcasts-story-of-software/74-remote-working/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Complex photo collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-Roland.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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