Short essays from inside the network. First-remote-role stories, salary-negotiation playbooks, going-nomadic logistics, and what works when you're hiring async-first. Written by members, vetted by people who lived it.
Anna landed her senior backend role at Pangea after a chain of three intros through the network. Here's the exact sequence — who she messaged first, what the intro template looked like, how Pangea's hiring manager replied, and the comp negotiation that followed.
Sara left a five-year in-house product role for her first fully-remote position. The async-by-default learning curve, the one thing that nearly broke her, and what she'd do differently.
Salary negotiationA simple script for pushing back on remote offers without coming across as adversarial. Includes the exact phrasing one member used to swing $18k + an additional week of PTO.
Going nomadicSix months on the road, three different jurisdictions, one Estonian e-residency, and how to do all of that without dropping out of your home country's health system.
Hiring asyncAn async-only hiring process for a 30-person company. The trial-week structure, the comp band, what we learned doesn't work, and the exact JD we post inside the network.
Product salesA reseller-arrangement playbook from the inside: how to vet the product, structure the commission, build a portfolio of 3-4 referenceable deals, and avoid the worst affiliate-marketing tropes.
First remote roleA practical schedule + a few rules that keep the time-zone overlap survivable. Includes how to handle the standup-at-5pm-your-time problem and when to push back.
From the operatorA short note on the trade-off between scale and trust, what we lose by opening up the gate, and how we're sized intentionally for a few hundred members.
Going nomadicDon't blow up your apartment lease yet. A "trial nomad" structure that one member used to figure out whether the whole thing was actually for her — without quitting anything.
Hiring asyncAfter 80 candidates and 12 hires, three prompt patterns consistently surfaced the strongest signal — and a fourth we thought was useful turned out not to be. The annotated version.