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aliases: ["Podcast recording — 2024-05-23"]
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Date: "2024-05-23"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-05-23
Recorded episode with James Murphy. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: remote-first engineering teams and the tooling, rituals, and cultural practices that make distributed work actually effective
- James described the transition his 200-person engineering org made from office-first to fully remote during 2020, and more importantly, the intentional redesign they did in 2022 when they realized their initial remote setup was just "office work over Zoom"
- His VP of Engineering perspective was grounded in real operational data — he shared specific metrics on cycle time, deployment frequency, and developer satisfaction before and after their remote redesign
- Solid recording with good energy; James has a natural podcast presence and keeps answers focused without being terse
- Key insight: "Async-first does not mean slow. It means thoughtful. The fastest teams I have seen are the ones where nobody is waiting for a meeting to make a decision"
- Clean audio throughout; James recorded from a quiet home office with a high-quality USB microphone

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to James
- [ ] Draft show notes highlighting the remote redesign framework
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
