To start off the new year on a good note, “Distributed” Early Release #4 is now publicly available.

Early Release #4 (ER#4) adds five (yes, five!) new chapters:
* Ch.3 disaster planning
* Ch.5 physical setup
* Ch.6 video etiquette
* Ch.19 career path (around choosing the right employers)
* Ch.20 feed your soul (around mental sanity for long term “remoties”)
…as well as many tweaks/fixes to pre-existing Chapters.

You can buy ER#4 by clicking here, or clicking on the thumbnail of the book cover. ER#4 comes just over one month after ER#3. Anyone who already has ER#1, ER#2 or ER#3 should get prompted with a free update to ER#4 – if you don’t please let me know! And yes, you’ll get updated when ER#5 comes out at the end of the month.

As always, please let me know what you think of the book so far. Is there anything you found worked for you, as a “remotie” or person in a distributed team, which you wish you knew when you were starting? If you knew someone about to setup a distributed team, what would you like them to know before they started?

Thank you to everyone who’s already sent me feedback/opinions/corrections – I track all of them and review/edit/merge as fast as I can. To make sure that any feedback doesn’t get lost or caught in spam filters, please email comments to feedback at oduinn dot com.

Thanks again to everyone for their ongoing encouragement, proof-reading help and feedback so far.

Happy New Year!
John.
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ps: For the curious, here is the current list of chapters and their status:

Chapter 1: Remoties trend – AVAILABLE
Chapter 2: The real cost of an office – AVAILABLE
Chapter 3: Disaster Planning – AVAILABLE
Chapter 4: Mindset – AVAILABLE
Chapter 5: Physical Setup – AVAILABLE
Chapter 6: Video Etiquette – AVAILABLE
Chapter 7: Own your calendar – AVAILABLE
Chapter 8: Meetings – AVAILABLE
Chapter 9: Meeting Moderator – AVAILABLE
Chapter 10: Single Source of Truth
Chapter 11: Email Etiquette – AVAILABLE
Chapter 12: Group Chat Etiquette
Chapter 13: Culture, Trust and Conflict
Chapter 14: One-on-Ones and Reviews – AVAILABLE
Chapter 15: Joining and Leaving
Chapter 16: Bring Humans Together – AVAILABLE
Chapter 17: Career path – AVAILABLE
Chapter 18: Feed your soul – AVAILABLE
Chapter 19: Final Chapter