10 Years of Lincoln Loop
April marked Lincoln Loop's 10th anniversary in business. As I reflect on that, I find myself going through all the typical platitudes: it's been a roller-coaster ride, how proud I am of …
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Time Saved Working From Home
One perk Lincoln Loop and other companies with remote staff regularly cite is the lack of a commute. Nothing beats taking the Pajama Freeway to your home office. While reviewing my time …
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Making the Distributed Workplace Work
In our last installment, I introduced our distributed workplace and why we prefer it over a traditional office. Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about how to make a distributed workplace, …
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How We Work [talk]
By Nicolas Lara
Whenever I have a conversation with someone about how we work at Lincoln Loop, people tend to be quite surprised, intrigued and skeptical, but mostly, they want to know more.
A while …
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The Distributed Workplace
Here's a map of our current offices at Lincoln Loop:
That's 10 people, 5 timezones, and 3 continents for those of you counting at home. I use the term "office" loosely because …
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Optimize for Motivation
By Graham King
When your client is hundreds of miles away, but your bed only three feet, it helps to understand motivation.
The first thing to understand about motivation is that it’s not something you …
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At Lincoln Loop, Everyone Sets Their Own Salary
As mentioned in my previous post, everyone at Lincoln Loop sets their own salary. It’s another radical divergance from the business norm that we borrowed from the book of Ricardo Semler.
Every …
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Open Book Finances
Maverick by Ricardo Semler was an eye-opening read for me a while back. It is a detailed account of his (highly profitable) company which is a radical departure from the traditional workplace. …
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Down with 9 to 5
Development is a creative endeavor. Often developers are creating something where there was once nothing. For most us, the thought of being productive for 8 consecutive hours 5 days a week is …
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