Work is a Verb A newsletter by Most job search advice assumes a massive, undifferentiated talent market. Cast a wide net. Play the numbers game. Apply to everything that looks vaguely interesting and let the chips fall. That advice will sabotage your remote job search. It’s not great advice for any scenario; it’s an appeal to our jaded side. Usually to sell AI application tools or resume services.But it is absolutely fatal when you’re looking for a great remote job. Remote work flips the...
9 days ago • 2 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by I've had weeks where my calendar looked like a Tetris championship. Color blocks, back-to-backs, "quick syncs," recurring standups, status updates. All very organized. And yet the work was stuck. The real blocker wasn't effort. It was availability. The one decision that would unlock five other tasks couldn't happen because the people who could make it didn't share 30 free minutes for another nine days. Their calendars were packed with meetings that didn't decide...
16 days ago • 3 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by You know what ruins a board game? House rules that only one person knows. “Oh, we don’t do it that way.” “No, you can’t buy that yet.” “Actually, you owe me rent twice.” Most workplaces run the same way: pay bands no one can explain, promotions that feel mystical, flexibility that’s technically allowed but quietly punished. When the rules aren’t explicit, proximity to authority becomes a cheat code. Equity is simply this: everyone gets the same rulebook and the...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by The Friction Tax Here's a number that should make every leader uncomfortable: 91% of employees report being frustrated with their workplace technology. Not "mildly annoyed." Frustrated. Most companies measure technology like a utility: Uptime System status Ticket volume But employees don’t experience “uptime.” They experience friction. This week: Technology — the "T" in REMOTE Score, and why the tools you're forced to use might be killing employee satisfaction....
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by Your first week at a remote job is a test. Not of your skills but of your company's infrastructure. You sit at your home desk, laptop open, waiting. Someone sends you a Slack message at 9:03am: "Welcome! Let me know if you need anything." And then... silence. In an office, you'd wander over to someone's desk. You'd absorb context from hallway conversations. You'd learn who actually knows what by watching people interact. Remote? All of that is invisible. And if...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by A leader posts in Slack at 4:57pm on a Thursday: “Quick update: we’re making some changes. More details tomorrow.” That single sentence is a morale test. Not because people are fragile. Because morale is the story your team tells itself when information is missing — and in distributed teams, the “story gap” fills fast. This week: Morale — the capacity to maintain belief in the organization and its goals, even in the face of opposition or hardship. Great morale...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by You've been in the job for six months. You know the systems. You hit your numbers. You show up to the meetings and nod at the right times. But when someone asks what you're working on, you give them the two-sentence version and change the subject. You're not disengaged exactly—you're just...there. Here's the thing nobody talks about: that feeling costs everyone. It costs your company measurable performance. It costs your coworkers extra work to compensate. And...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by Year three is when you become dangerous. You're not learning the system anymore. You're building it. You know which "urgent" pings can wait, which processes are real, and how to ship decisions without six meetings. That's also when the LinkedIn messages start looking good. Last week I introduced REMOTE Score. This week: the "R" for Retention, and why it matters more than you think. The Retention Gap Companies love talking about ramp time. Month 1: 25% Month 3:...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Work is a Verb A newsletter by We measure everything. Revenue per employee. Time-to-hire. Net Promoter Score. Quarterly OKRs broken into weekly KPIs broken into daily standups. We've built dashboards for dashboards. But ask most companies about their culture... and you get vibes and platitudes. What gets measured gets managed Even the crunchier numbers like cost of turnover and time-to-hire are generally overlooked. There's just a few more dots to connect between people metrics and revenue....
2 months ago • 3 min read