The Remote Show · Tyler Sellhorn, Matthew Hollingsworth

Adam Nathan, Co-founder & CEO at Almanac

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Adam Nathan reveals how scattered tools waste 80% of work time on overhead tasks.

Tyler Selwyn opens with Almanac's promise. He introduces Adam Nathan as the CEO of Almanac, a product minded founder trying to make better work practices easier to share and cheaper to access. Adam starts in a very familiar place: too much of his day was disappearing into meetings, Slack, and email. The notifications kept yanking him away from work that felt useful. Almanac is pitched as async first. Adam describes it as an operating system for distributed work, with asynchronous workflows and version control inside the document editor so teams can rely less on Slack, email, and meetings. The conversation spends real time on shared documents, because that is where the remote work problem gets practical. Tyler and Adam talk through the move from working together in real time to working with people who may not share the same hours at all. That shift is bigger than software. Adam argues that remote teams struggle when they drag office habits into a distributed setting and then try to fix the strain with more calls and more messages. COVID becomes the pressure test. Forced remote work, very unideal situations, and no travel made it clear that the old operating model did not fit the new environment. Burnout is the proof point. Adam cites Intel's 64 percent burnout increase and says people were working two more hours outside normal working hours on average. His answer is not to make everyone more available. It is to change the habits and the tools, especially when teams are no longer naturally lined up by place or schedule. Customers come to Almanac through pain first. Adam says many organizations arrive because they can feel that their current way of working is becoming unsustainable for the team. He also makes the market sound broad rather than niche, naming startups, Fortune 5000 companies, hospital chains, banks, airlines, and manufacturing companies as workplaces dealing with the same distributed work problem. Tyler keeps bringing the conversation back to the listener who wants remote work to feel less draining and more deliberate. The close is simple: Adam thanks Tyler, and the show points listeners to Almanac, Adam's work, and WeWorkRemotely for remote jobs and hiring.

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A clear case for async workflows and version control as a better fit for distributed work.

It makes a practical case that distributed teams need better tools for async work. Adam Nathan and Tyler keep the focus on the everyday drag of meetings, Slack, and email, then connect that friction to a larger point: workflows and version control inside the document editor…

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Press play if you want a case for replacing meeting sprawl with async work.

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