Chapter1: HowtoRunaRemoteTeam 5 Chilling in Slack Slack is our virtual office. If you’re in Slack then you’re at work. A group chat roomlikeSlackisalsogreatatcreatingcamaraderie. Depending on your team size, you’ll want to make use of channels in Slack as well. At a certain size, it can start to get noisy, so it makes sense to section off rooms into things like “water cooler”, “engineering”, “marketing”, etc. I would holdoff on this as long as possible, though, when you’re a small team. Ataround10people,westartedcreatingmultiplechannels.Wenowhaveover 100 channels. Active ones include functional channels like #marketing, #sup- port,and#hacking,alongwithproject-specificchannelslike#team-growth,and social channels like #fun-cooking. Prepending Slack channels with words like “fun-“ or “feed-“ help organize and communicate to new teammates what can quickly become an unruly list of channels in Slack. 2. Async