We've written and curated the best articles about remote & hybrid work.
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“People are making tweets or blog posts or articles that are speculating about what’s going to happen, as opposed to them being actors in creating it.”
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These values underpin successful remote work. It doesn't matter how good your tools are, if your organisation doesn't embrace these values then your remote working practice will not succeed in the long run.
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Tips for how you can use tech features to support better wellbeing and balance at work
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There’s one question we get all the time: How can we set up our office to maximize collaboration and empower individual choice?
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Daniel Ek, chief executive officer and cofounder of Spotify, attends a news conference in Tokyo in 2016. Akio Kon—Bloomberg/Getty Images In February 2021, Spotify announced its new work model called “Work From Anywhere.
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Due to the pandemic, remote working moved from a fringe mode of employment to nearly universally implemented among knowledge workers. For two years, businesses grappled with how to succeed with remote work.
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When we discuss hybrid working models, we talk a lot about adopting a remote-first mindset, but what does this mean? A remote-first mindset means that you conduct your work in such a way that you’re indistinguishable from a remote worker.
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Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of extreme self-awareness to even notice.
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Last week we spoke about why you have to focus on creating visibility and how you can go about doing thatToday we'll talk about what
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How to be visible while remote workingHow many times have you heard that 93% of communication is non-verbal? Of that, 55% is via body
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Trust is the most important value. As a leader, you must trust that the people who work for you will do what you ask of them, to the best of their ability and that if they are unable to, they will be honest enough to tell you as soon as they are having difficulties.
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Principle 2. Clarity - Alignment enables autonomy. Yesterday we reintroduced the 3 fundamental principles of remote working: 1. Trust - link in comments 2. Clarity 3. Visibility In this post we take a deeper look at Clarity.
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Principle 3. Visibility Over the past days we reintroduced the 3 fundamental principles of remote working: 1. Trust - link in comments 2. Clarity- link in comments 3. Visibility In this post we take a deeper look at Visibility.
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Remote, Hybrid, Office? It's about the mindset, not the place. Irrespective of where you work, you need to adopt a remote-first mindset. Pre-pandemic we always advised organisations if one person is remote, assume that everyone is remote, even if people occasionally work from offices.
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No one wants to go back to the office—or at least, not five days a week. More than 90% of U.S.
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There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to the future of where we work. The pandemic has completely revolutionised the way we think about offices, remote working, and employees’ workplace needs—meaning there’s no longer a “standard” way of working.
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The pandemic has triggered seismic shifts in how we work, causing many companies to transition from an office-centric culture to more flexible ways of working.
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Mark Craemer/QuartzQuartz's New York headquarters.From our ObsessionThe OfficeWhether we work in cubicles, the C-suite, or a home office, we’re always navigating the people and cultural norms shaping our workday.
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If you “can’t manage what you don’t measure,” who is responsible for managing and measuring the impact of workplace flexibility in your organization? To navigate the growing trend of remote work, many organizations are turning to a new role called “Head of Remote” to serve as the in-hous
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How do we keep remote workers engaged and well? How do managers need to adapt their approaches? How do we recreate those all-important watercooler moments that spark creativity and collaboration? If these are challenges you’re facing, you’re not alone.
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Recovery is even more challenging than dealing with the immediate crisis and requires careful planning and strategic execution. 7 minute ReadLet’s call 2020 a reaction. It was the year that happened to us, and we responded as well as we could on as many levels as possible, all at the same time.
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In many companies, determining what to do with the office is the focal point of a much larger discussion. The success of remote work has reimagined how corporate work gets done, as well as where the work takes place.
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The longer we work remotely, the more we like it. Now, almost a year after being begrudgingly forced to evacuate our offices, the thought of going back to a daily commute and dismal cubicle is tough to stomach. In fact, recent surveys are revealing that nearly 70% of U.S.
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You’d probably agree that while distributed teams are the future, managing remote communication when people are spread around the world can be a massive challenge.
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Since the pandemic began, organizations have struggled to convert remote operations to a more sustainable model. A major contributing factor comes from a deep reliance on real-time, synchronous communication, compensating for lack of structure, visibility into work, and self-management skills.
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Remote work is on the rise as company after company is announcing that their work from home contingency plan has now extended into a semi-permanent or permanent workplace flexibility model. But is the distribution of a workforce the same as operating as a fully distributed company?
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Since unexpectedly adopting a work from home model in March, millions of companies around the world are learning how to keep their workforces connected and efficient without proximity to one another.
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In the next five years remote companies may supersede the co-located ones. That is good news because, on top of the regular benefits of remote work, we might have a shot at saving the planet.
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Work-life balance is a key factor in building engaged, productive, and committed teams. If you want your employees to show up and do their best work, you need to make sure they have ample time to get away from work and disconnect each day.
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The fear of remote worker isolation is a lurking topic for every business leader during this era of office lockdowns.
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Work-life balance is a key factor in building engaged, productive, and committed teams. If you want your employees to show up and do their best work, you need to make sure they have ample time to get away from work and disconnect each day.
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During these unprecedented times, keeping up with real-time communication (messages, emails, virtual meetings) is creating anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed for people new to working from home.
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In hopes of containing Coronavirus (and keeping the global economy as stable as possible), many businesses all over the world are doing their part to limit unnecessary person-to-person interactions by requiring some or all of their employees to work from home for the time being.
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Achieving career goals, juggling a hectic social life and being a doting parent: Maintaining a work-life balance is something we all strive for but many struggle to actually achieve.
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Even though teleworking has been around for almost a half-century, it has recently become a global trend, and even more recently, a global economic contingency plan.
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How Marcus Wermuth approaches communication and dealing with the different types of isolation that come with remote work.
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A few months ago, 2020 was predicted to be the “year of remote work.” But even the most optimistic telecommuting advocates never anticipated the launch of the world’s largest work-from-home experiment before the end of the first quarter.
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There have been many posts lately from remote work activists who feel the Coronavirus outbreak may be the tipping point for the adoption of remote work across businesses.
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The reality of working from home is rarely as rosy as it seems. From the outside, it might look like people who work from home have more self-discipline or drive than others. But I’ll let you in on a little secret.
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For each of the last three years, Buffer has shared a research report on the state of remote work. Conducted by surveying a few thousand remote workers from around the world, the primary goal was to understand “what trends are growing across the remote work landscape?”.
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Remoter met up with Michael Burkhardt, leader of the International Meditation Community in CDMX to talk about practicing mindfulness for remote workers.
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Debunking the myths that start-ups can't scale as fast if their team isn't all located in the same place, at the same time.
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There’s no doubt that remote work can help bridge the digital skills gap and foster a strong, digitally inclusive environment. Digital inclusion is more than just having internet connectivity.
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Today we're launching the Threads beta — a platform designed to make work more inclusive by empowering teams to discuss and make decisions at scale. As a team grows, you start to see it happen.
READ >I’ve been working remotely for over a decade – well before the days of tools like Slack or Zoom. In some ways, it was easier back then: you worked from wherever you were and had the space to manage your workload however you wanted.
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We think a lot about work culture at Buffer. So at the end of the year, it’s always an interesting exercise to think on how the work world has evolved and the work culture trends we see on the horizon. Here are five of our predictions for 2020.
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When some people think of the workplace of the future, they envision futuristic-style holograms having a meeting or robots cooking lunch for everyone in the office.
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It’s the telephone network. Over 5 billion people have mobile phones today, giving them the power to communicate instantly with almost anyone else in the world. The global email network isn’t far behind.
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While in the following sections, we try to propose some solutions to the various challenges of working remotely, a good place to start is to listen to the voices of the many remote workers who are already living this lifestyle.
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More parents now feel under pressure to check their work emails in the evening, according to a report. The 2020 Modern Families Index found that 44% of parents check their emails or do other work at night.
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If I see one more picture of a remote worker on a beach with a laptop, I’m going to scream.
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This is a story of one brave soul who joined our remote team from the office-based corporate world, illustrating how he coped with the mindset change and why he’s never looked back.
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Tech companies embraced the diversity train in a very public manner in 2014, when the release of the first diversity reports set off a wave of calls for change. Arguably, not much has changed in the last five years.
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Employees may be trading in conference rooms and cubicles for coworking spaces and coffee shops as more companies move to offer flexible and remote work options.
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In the past, there were very few investors open to investing in all-remote companies. Despite the many advantages associated with the remote work concept...
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Remote work — either full-time or the occasional work from home day — is appealing for many employees. Working from home can cut out commuting time and expenses, enable people to more easily balance their family and work duties, and even increase productivity.
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More and more people are wanting to work remotely. As a leader, how can you say yes and be confident that your teams will be successful?
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Remote work isn't niche anymore—it's everywhere. Anyone who frequents a coffee shop knows that. At this point, companies of all sizes are implementing remote work policies.
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Remote working may no longer be an optional perk for companies that want to keep talented staff. More than a quarter (26%) of U.S.
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Australian companies are embracing remote work. But how many are getting it right? When technology moves faster than regulation and industry practices, there can be tough questions for managers and confusing choices for jobseekers.
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Nuffield Health has released a review of remote working and its impact it on companies and their staff.
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Remote work has been top of mind for many companies recently, and technology managers are increasingly looking for analytical ways to motivate hiring remote team members. The remote community is responding in force.
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Citing taxpayer savings and increased productivity, Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says the state will expand remote working to an additional 2,500 state government workers.
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Study after study after study into remote work has made one thing clear: Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. What’s not entirely clear is why.
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One of the main reasons remote work is becoming more achievable is because of the evolution of technology and its deep integration into virtually all business disciplines.
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It's important that companies adapt and put the right policies in place to ensure their employees feel part of the team and don’t burn out.
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National Flex Day just happened for the seventh year in a row and I’d say it’s pretty clear that flexployment is here to stay.
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How the wildly popular brand for curly-haired people broke loose from the inbox
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More than 26 million Americans—about 16% of the total workforce—now work remotely at least part of the time, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor.
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When Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded HP in 1947, it made logistical and fiscal sense to have all their workers housed under one roof. Ditto for Apple.
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GitLab was never intended to be an all-remote company. Things just worked out that way. When it launched in 2012, the tech business comprised only CEO Sid Sijbrandij, working at home on his computer in the Netherlands.
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With remote work becoming more popular, why are physical workplaces still important? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
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I’ve been a digital nomad for a long time. In the 1990s, I began using one of the first wireless modems while publishing a technical newsletter and working on computer books.
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CEO and co-founder of Zapier, a workflow automation tool used by over four million people to connect the work apps they use every day. I periodically hear VCs say that they’d never fund distributed startups.
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As technology grows, so does our ability to stay connected without the need for immediate proximity. Are terms Remote and Distributed interchangeable?
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For this very first "People Talks" interview, Humaans.io sat down with Andrew Gobran at Doist to talk about remote work.
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From their ersatz offices in coffee shops, coworking spaces, and living rooms, a growing number of remote workers are quietly remaking the way we work and live.
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The idea of working remotely has been more than bubbling on the back burner. It's at boil status, and the ability to work from home well is one of the hottest job skills going. The pot may be about to overflow, and the out-of-office move is about to go mainstream.
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Remote working seems to be all the buzz. Apparently, 70% of professionals work from home at least once a week. Similarly, 77% of people work more productively and 68% of millennials would consider a company more if they offered remote working.
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One of the biggest perks of remote work is greater flexibility. With the ability to work from anywhere, remote workers can take advantage of this by traveling, working from a coffee shop, or simply working from home instead of the office.
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Sometimes it’s maddening. Sitting in traffic, or enduring interminable Red Line delays, only to get to the office and do pretty much the same thing you could do at home — only with more people around. And better lunch options.
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If you’ve ever worked from home for more than 6 months, you’ve likely experienced a work from home slump. Precisely because remote work is so coveted — it can feel like a “first world problem” to suddenly find yourself lonely, unmotivated, or unproductive when working from home.
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There are countless opportunities for innovative startups to digitize the many advantages of being there in person. Remote work is an early-inning trend for enterprises and SMBs, bringing with it the demand for a new generation of enabling technologies.
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The life of a remote worker can be tough. How can you get to know everyone on your team and stay in touch when you don't see them every day? Over 19% of respondents described loneliness as their biggest struggle with remote working.
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Whatever your work looks like now, get ready for it to drastically change in the next decade. With all the new remote tools currently underway and more teams than ever switching to a remote structure, it’s safe to say communicating in 2020 will be very different.
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According to our State of Remote Work survey for 2019, 84% of remote workers work from their home. That means that most of us work and live in the same place. This results in the biggest struggle remote workers have: unplugging after work.
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I’ve had conversations this week with several young freelancers about their experiences working remotely.
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In recent years, businesses increasingly have offered remote work arrangements to keep employees happy and productive. Now, a new study has quantified just how appreciative remote workers really are--and how much your company stands to benefit. Video conferencing company Owl Labs surveyed 1,200 U.
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It’s 10:00 am. Do you know where your employee is? No doubt they are working—somewhere.
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Across the globe, more than 3 billion people are active social media users engaging with content on more than 120 social media sites. How is a digital brand, (or any brand for that matter) supposed to keep up and keep these users engaged? Communication and collaboration.
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How employees across the United States think about working remotely, hybrid and remote team management, meetings, and more.
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When Ariel Coleman, 28, quit her last job, as a project manager in the corporate office of a bank, it wasn’t because her new employer offered her a raise, a different role or more seniority. “The work-life balance is just much better,” she said.
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The current job market tilts heavily in the job seeker’s favor, with a historically low unemployment rate, more open jobs than professionals to fill them, and more people quitting their jobs than any time in the last 17 years.
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Chief Technology Officer at Lifesize, leading engineering and development of cloud-based video conferencing and meeting room systems.
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Working remotely is the new normal—and the increasing numbers of employees who work from home are, paradoxically, changing the nature of office design.
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These days, most of us work remotely in some way. Perhaps you work from home once a week, answer calls on the bus, or even read emails on the toilet (don’t act like you haven’t).
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Companies that let their workers decide where and when to do their jobs increase employee productivity, reduce turnover, and lower costs.
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Fed up with living in an expensive city or community?
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Nearly 5 million Americans are now a part of the remote workforce, according to a Global Workplace Analytics and FlexJobs report.
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Remote work isn’t just here to stay, it’s becoming the new norm. A way of working that people love and strive for.
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The State of Remote Work Report indicates that 90 percent of remote workers plan to keep working remotely for the rest of their career.
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The State of Remote Work is Buffer's annual report that showcases the world of remote workers and seeks to understand them.
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The following two stories sum up the problematic relationship with work. Bob gets into the office at 8am and leaves at 7pm, he replies to email anytime of the day or night, evenings and weekend.
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"While working remotely and employee volunteer programs are both on the rise, there are still many companies and leaders that haven’t realized the value of letting your employees commute less and travel more, especially for social good,”
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If being passionate about your job and having laughs along the way is key to success, then Steven Kinvi has it cracked.
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