Sean Kane

It isn't easy to keep strong relationships with distributed teams. Having photos of each person is a step to creating better rapport. Using video in calls to see facial reactions is a much greater step in its direction. Attempt to recreate a colocated environment to some degree. You would never wear a cartoon mask or paper bag over your head to the office (well, maybe in COVID times you would...

Building for scale in the initial developments, before fully proving the model. Yes, it would have avoided some refactoring, but ultimately it put the cart before the horse.

It depends on what you need delegating. A simple way to look at it is to recognize when you are often doing large amounts of work outside of where you deliver the most value. Sometimes those things are administrative, and sometimes they are heavy lifting things like architecture. If someone can do those things better than you can, and you can resume doing your most valuable work, it's worth the...