My Favourite Tip: Free yourself from meetings with Gitlab’s Darren Murph

<p>Do you have Zoom fatigue? What if you could cut your meetings down by 50%?</p><p><br></p><p>Gitlab’s head of Remote, Darren Murph, believes time spent face-to-face is precious and should be reserved for informal communication and team bonding. So he’s created a four-step barrier to scheduling a meeting that means only the most important meetings make it onto his calendar.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>By preferencing documentation over meetings Murph has made his virtual meetings dramatically more effective.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You can find the full interview here: <a href="https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcasts/gitlabs-head-of-remote-darren-murph-on-how-to-create-corporate-culture-when-no-one-works-from-the-office/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GitLab’s Head of Remote, Darren Murph, on how to create corporate culture when no one works from the office</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>CREDITS</p><p>Produced by<a href="https://www.inventium.com.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Inventium</a></p><p>Host:<a href="https://www.amanthaimber.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Amantha Imber</a></p><p>Sound engineer: Martin Imber</p><p><br></p><p>If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at&nbsp;<a href="http://howiwork.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://howiwork.co</a></p><p><br></p><p>Visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast</a>&nbsp;for full show notes from all episodes.</p><p><br></p><p>Get in touch at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:amantha@inventium.com.au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">amantha@inventium.com.au</a></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noope