> People kept coming. People kept leaving. Decision making moved into the shadows. Consensus disappeared. People with no remote experience were hired into significant positions. Middle management sought “fix-all” workflow tooling before understanding open source Ethos or Logos.<p>Sounds like management was broken just like in every other failed startup.
> If your pattern is to communicate through direct messages or in private channels, then the knowledge and the contributors and the decision making process remain hidden from the team<p>That's why we have employee Slack channels.<p>Also worth researching 'remote-only' companies and how they do things.
Oh my. An inline pull-quote that isn't just repeating something within 2 lines of it in the body text. I'm getting goosebumps. Thank you for not fucking this up the way nearly everyone does. God those screaming-what-you-just-read-at-you-again ones are awful.