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Running effective meetings and meeting practices

07 September, 2025

Create space for serendipity

Steph Ango says If you’re remote, ramble:

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice.
Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion.

I love this idea! I genuinely think the more we write and share the better, and I’ve noticed the effect of similar things that grew out of working remotely with people.

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crumb • 09:16 • 3 min read • #thinking-out-loud, #engineering-culture, #remote-work, #meetings

03 May, 2025

Running effective meetings uses the same skills as running successful projects

From meeting minutes to project milestones

You’ve probably sat through your fair share of meetings where time slips away as conversations wander aimlessly, not unlike being dropped into an unfamiliar codebase, with twisting branches all alike.

A colleague asked for feedback on a meeting they ran, and after sharing my thoughts, I realized my advice about meetings sounded exactly like how I talk about planning projects. This got me thinking: the skills for running good meetings and successful projects are nearly identical.

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blog • 16:20 • 8 min read Singapore • #thinking-out-loud, #meetings, #agile, #which-role