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Recognizing Remote Workers: 3 Easy Yet Impactful Ideas

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Below are three proven strategies engineered to ensure remote staffers feel like the essential contributors they are. Open the floor to peer-to-peer praise during your meetings. The point is to make the employee of the month feel valued as both a coworker and an individual. Initially, this might seem unusual.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating. Defensibility in Software.