Andrew Boyagi: Better, Experience, Productivity, System | Work 20XX Ep35
Release Date: 04/24/2025
Liam Martin: Community Retreat, Remote, AI | Work 20XX Ep55
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Liam Martin shared his full circle moment with me at Running Remote, almost 5 years to the day he was forced to cancel Running Remote’s last visit to Austin, April 2020. With prior stops in Lisbon and Montreal, Running Remote’s return to Austin was a community fest. Remote first organizations focus more on in-house retreats than anyone outside of the actual travel industry. Industry leaders needed their own retreat. And Running Remote was born in 2018. After the reflection, the conversation turned to the future, and the intersection of remote management practices, AI adoption, and...
info_outline
Michael Melen: Talent Pool, Growth Opportunity | Work 20XX Ep54
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Mike Melen took a college side hustle, and built it into a growing global digital marketing agency. After starting full remote, Mike opened an office in Bergen County, New Jersey. Covid closed the office, and SmartSites is back to being fully remote to stay. Remote hiring opened up the available talent pool beyond his Bergen County, New Jersey. Suddenly, Mike could hire people with the special skills needed, regardless of where they plugged in their laptop. Mike learned early on that the best people want opportunities to grow, so he set an annual goal of 30% growth. He hired younger,...
info_outline
Melinda Stallings: Positivity, PechaKucha, Gifts, Reset | Work 20XX Ep53
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Melinda Stallings brings the power of positivity to the workplace and stage. Founder of The Positive Consultant and curator of DisruptHR Austin, Melinda promotes the “infinite power of positivity,” consulting with individual organizations and extending her reach as the force behind DisruptHR Austin, where she builds programs such as the 2025 theme, Envision, Empower, Elevate, helping people thrive in the workplace. I also learned about PechaKucha, a Japanese storytelling format built around the idea of “talk less, show more.” At DisruptHR, this translates into speakers having just 5...
info_outline
Robert Phelps: Cybersecurity, People, Responsibility, Test | Work 20XX Ep52
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Robert Phelps helps keep remote teams secure, often before they even know they’re at risk. As President of Creative IT, Robert and team provide IT services for companies that are too small to build an in-house department, or those that need a little assist. Robert and I spoke at Running Remote 2025 Austin, before his keynote, ‘The Hidden Bottleneck: Why Remote Teams Struggle to Scale (and How to Fix It Today),’ on the cybersecurity challenges of remote and distributed teams, and the responsibility for user and companies, even if most of their apps and IT are hosted at a large...
info_outline
Karrie Sullivan: Results, Resilient, Reluctant, Readiness | Work 20XX Ep51
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Karrie Sullivan has been on the edge of digital transformation since the earliest days of digital media, with a stint at during the late ‘90 internet boom. She knows about getting people to change behavior, to adopt the new, to do things differently. As she said, people won’t change behavior just because you ask them. People will change behavior to fit in. Especially if you hand them proven peer produced playbooks. Today, Karrie leads Culminate Strategy Group, where she and her team specialize in accelerating new technology adoption by identifying and working with key change agents....
info_outline
Henrik Jarleskog: AI Squad, BarCeptionist, Full Stack Hospitality | Work 20XX Ep50
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Henrik Järleskog, has been on my radar for some time. He’s an active member of the ‘future of work’ community on LinkedIn, frequently contributing articles, keynotes, posts, panel discussions, podcasts appearances and more. I knew I’d have him on eventually…. And then he dropped the post … ‘Not one hand went up’ And went on to describe his team of AI agents, working for him. His dirty dozen, cabinet, team of rivals, assistants, advisors, and worker bees, helping Henrik 3x to 4x himself as he described. From to , the list is long and detailed. So the time is now....
info_outline
Brian Robertson: Authority, Clarity, Limits, System | Work 20XX Ep49
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Brian Robertson’ leadership philosophies are based on empowering the system, not the people. With clear limits, an ‘act don’t ask’ permissive mindset, the culture seeks to foster more entrepreneurial leadership, when people can exercise authority and autonomy, rather then sitting around, waiting to be told what to do. As the founder of Holacracy and a veteran entrepreneur, Brian brings a new model for leadership and decision-making, rooted in clarity, authority, and giving people the ability to act. Recorded at Running Remote in Austin, Brian shares how companies can unlock speed...
info_outline
Mindy Honcoop: Fractional, Upskill, Micro dose Change | Work 20XX Ep48
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Mindy Honcoop helps people grow, one micro dose at a time. As the founder of Agile in HR and a seasoned people leader, Mindy brings a unique lens as her path started in the juvenile justice system, working with kids, and figuring out how happiness, and being one’s best self at work, contributed to a child’s well being. At Running Remote, Mindy emcee’d the outside stage for two days, absorbing insights, and sharing her own perspective on the evolving nature of leadership, work, and upskilling. In this episode, she shares how fractional roles work, her approach to growth and creating...
info_outline
Justin Harlan: Move for $10K, Stay for Community | Work20XX Ep47
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Justin Harlan wants you to move to Tulsa. But not just for the $10,000 check. He wants you to consider building your life in Tulsa. As Managing Director of Tulsa Remote, Justin leads a groundbreaking initiative to attract talented, remote workers to diversity Tulsa’s economic base beyond oil and gas with more knowledge workers. To grow greater Tulsa, as well as the newly transplanted community. Tulsa is also investing in ‘placemaking’ to increase the probability that these newest residents will stay for the long team. And it’s working. With over 3,500 people relocated and an 85%...
info_outline
Zach Boyette: Remote, Design, Freedom, Games | Work 20XX Ep46
Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Zach Boyette got a business class view of the world and decided to build a life, and company around the freedom to design one’s own life, not only for Zach the traveler, but all the employees, regardless of the design they choose, living anywhere in the world. As co-founder and CEO of Galactic Fed, Zach leads a 100% remote, 150-person global marketing agency. They designed the company from the bottom up around the principle of giving agency to employees to design they life they want to lead. At work, at home, and in their communities. Built on a foundation of documentation, writing...
info_outlineAndrew Boyagi just completed a multi time zone, multi country, multi week development project with no meetings. Not one. No kick off meetings, no status meetings, zero. And no one even notices until it was pointed out after the fact.
Sure, Andrew still kicked off the project. Of course everyone kept informed. Yes, objectives and priorities were aligned and corrected over time. But without meetings. Just messages, posting, videos, and perhaps a call, using Loom, Confluence, and Slack.
As Atlassian’s Global Head of DevOps Evangelism, Andrew’s all about experience to drive better software, faster. He’s constantly thinking about removing friction, innovative use of tools and processes, and focusing on the high leverage activities that deliver. Andrew’s mission is to eliminate friction, toil, and distractions so people can focus on delivering the best work of their lives.
I had a chance to sit down with Andrew in Anaheim at Atlassian Team ‘25 and dig into the latest findings from Atlassian’s ‘System of Work.’ Andrew’s also an advocate of leveraging AI to help increase developer productivity, but perhaps not in the ways you might expect.
Please join me in welcoming Andrew to the Work 20XX podcast
Thank you Andrew
Editor's Note:
Recorded 2025-Apr-09, Anaheim Convention Center. My first solo onsite recording with some new gear. The audio is not great, but the content is well worth the effort. Missing my rock star production team.
Special shout out to Rob Castaneda and Team ServiceRocket for sharing their booth to enable this recording.
YouTube - Click Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a18HhhdVRoo&list=PLZURvMqWbYjmmJlwGj0L0jWbWdCej1Jlt
Transcript and Show Notes - Click Here
https://www.work20xx.com/episode/andrew-boyagi-better-experience-productivity-system-work-20xx-ep35