After one year of working from home, I knew my team needed a change. Judging by conversations I had with colleagues, family, and friends, it was becoming very clear that the new-to-remote workforce was on the fast track to hitting a collective wall. Generally, we try to keep our ears close to the ground when it comes to listening to employee feedback at Storyblocks so we can spot any mounting issues and nip them in the bud quickly....

My team tried blocking Slack to focus — it worked Slack is fuzzy — and that’s the problem “My first thought on seeing this experiment was ‘who even am I without Slack?'” said Katie Redderson-Lear, Escalations Customer Champion at Zapier. “So I feel like that’s a sign that I should try this.” Apps like Slack are essential for remote teams—they really are the virtual office. But Slack is addictive in precisely the way other messaging apps are: notifications, red dots, and other features capture my attention and ensure that I spend more time in the app....

I love my home office chair — deeply. It feels like sitting in a hug. Before 2020, I would only see it a few hours a day. The rest of the time, I’d work in co-working spaces and coffee shops, which I walk to. It kept me active. The pandemic changed that — my chair became part of my body. I coded there, I had meetings there, I ate my meals there, I happy hour’d with friends there, and I watched Netflix there....

SinceTNW2011I have traveled to Spain and Germany so I had a good opportunity to test the app. For those who don’t knowwhat Onavo is: it is an iPhone app that compresses your data and saves you up to 90% on your data roaming costs. HalfwayOnavo’s presentationat our conference I stopped listening andinstalled the App. Their proposition was almost too good to be true and I knew I wanted it. The app is (currently) free and can save you hundreds of euros or dollars in roaming fees....

My website blunder cost me $1 million — here’s how your startup can avoid it No need to repeat my mistakes. Ramping up for success After three years of building it, SaferVPN was well-positioned for success by the fall of 2016. When the product – specially designed to protect users against online identity theft and public internet exposure started flying off App Store shelves – we knew we were on the right track for explosive growth....