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Hi there,

What a week! Seeing the Swedish soccer team score in our second hometown Gothenburg, learning more about mindfulness at work during Technology Open Air in Berlin and still receiving so many sweet messages in response to our The Art of Employing Branding guide. We're about to update the guide, so if you happen to miss something, feel free to share it with us. 

This edition of our newsletter will update you on giving feedback, chopping big projects up into smaller parts, how to find the perfect workspace and why working from home is not the same as working remotely.  

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Four recommendations

PRODUCTIVITY 

Short time horizons keep it fresh

- Signal v. Noise

When do we do our best work? When we’re excited about something! Because excitement morphs into motivation. However, the longer the project the thinner the tail. Therefore, Jason Fried recommends working on a series of small projects, or break a single big project into smaller individual projects. Only then you stand a better chance at maintaining motivation and rekindling interest.

WORKSPACE

Stuff they don't tell you, where to work?
- Wepresent 
 


Choosing a workspace is arguably one of the most overlooked aspects of working, in part because there’s very little you actually need – a laptop and some decent wifi is the price of entry to the modern mobile workforce. However picking the right space is harder than it seems. Wetransfer's Wepresent shared some interesting tips to finally getting it right. 

 

FEEDBACK

Say the hard thing

- Rands in Repose

It's always easier to give compliments, but when you want to grow your team, you have to start giving feedback too. You have to say the hard thing. The difficulty with saying that, is you know how it feels to hear the hard thing. It might help to remember this: feedback is about building trust and we humans are extremely slow to trust. That’s cool. Just take your time.

REMOTE

Working from home is not remote work

- Trello

The ability for employees to work outside of an office is more feasible now than ever, therefore remote working is becoming more and popular. But remote work has a lot of stigma attached to it, and part of this is due to some confusion about what being a remote worker really means. There's a big difference between working from home occasionally and being a completely remote company. Trello wrote down some definitions and included some tips on how to talk the talk and walk the walk. 

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