The Culture Tech Stack

Sir
1 min readDec 23, 2019

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Low Tech

  • Highlight interviewees and hires with bright lanyards
  • Bring back the water cooler by:
  • Allow only mug-sized coffee thermoses and water bottles
  • Move More or Ergomo
  • It’s all about the small things with tremendous impact. We don’t get enough daylight in Vancouver, so I would wait until everyone was gone and secretly pull up all the curtains. It makes a yuge difference.

High Tech

Communication beats notifications. Ergo, food and face time > Slack.

  • Physical Luxafor light or Saent focus buttom
  • Pomodus Slack integration: communicate when you are busy/free with your Slack status, and turn on/off notifications.
  • Ritual’s piggyback
  • (Working from home) Houseparty’s video chat — a digital water cooler.
  • Super Smash brothers (Everyone loves a game of Smash Bros).

Slack

  • Donut bot — but everyone meets same day, same time, same place
  • Internal vs. External communication rules
  • Same floors: face-to-face
  • Company updates: analogue posters
  • Department updates: analogue posters

The remote Culture Tech Stack

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Sir

Once upon a time an early adopter of Facebook, Twitter, et al. Then one day, deleted name, deleted apps, and left The Matrix. Now I’m back.