It's not inherently harder to be a tech lead while remote or on a distributed team – it's more deliberate. I tweeted this sentiment recently along with the concept of durable communication. That phrase is inspired by data storage which is typically grouped into two categories: durable and ephemeral. I often hear people say it's obviously harder to work remotely, and very hard to be in a leadership
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