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Ben Balter

Product, leadership, and showing your work

For agents: Personal site of Ben Balter with posts on product leadership, open and async remote work, and program management, plus résumé and audiobook.

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# Ben Balter

Product, leadership, and showing your work

## Pages

- [About](https://ben.balter.com/about/)
- [Résumé](https://ben.balter.com/resume/)
- [Posts](https://ben.balter.com/posts/)
- [Contact](https://ben.balter.com/contact/)

## Recent posts

- [It's pronounced JIF. The Open and Async audiobook is out.](https://ben.balter.com/2026/09/08/gif-or-jif-audiobook-both-ways/)
- [Accessible by default: writing a book like software](https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/27/accessible-by-default/)
- [How I over-engineered my book](https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/)
- [Open and async on the Overcommitted podcast](https://ben.balter.com/2026/07/28/overcommitted-open-and-async/)
- [Open and Async: the remote-work playbook is out](https://ben.balter.com/2026/07/21/open-and-async/)
- [Work loudly](https://ben.balter.com/2026/07/14/work-loudly/)
- [Reorgs happen](https://ben.balter.com/2026/06/07/reorgs-happen/)
- [AI-first program management](https://ben.balter.com/2026/05/31/ai-first-program-management/)
- [The brag doc](https://ben.balter.com/2026/04/27/the-brag-doc/)
- [How to one-on-one](https://ben.balter.com/2026/04/27/one-on-one-playbook/)
- [No agenda, no meeting](https://ben.balter.com/2026/04/06/no-agenda-no-meeting/)
- [Agentic workflows and the future of code](https://ben.balter.com/2026/03/18/agentic-workflows/)
- [Thirteen years remote at GitHub: what works](https://ben.balter.com/2026/03/04/thirteen-years-at-github/)
- [How to run LanguageTool on macOS](https://ben.balter.com/2025/01/30/how-to-run-language-tool-open-source-grammarly-alternative-on-macos/)
- [Silencing dissent isn't crisis management](https://ben.balter.com/2024/01/08/dissenting-voices/)
- [Cathedral vs Bazaar People Management](https://ben.balter.com/2023/12/08/cathedral-bazaar-management/)
- [How to communicate like a GitHub engineer](https://ben.balter.com/2023/10/04/how-to-communicate-like-a-github-engineer/)
- [Transparent collaboration is the andon of knowledge work](https://ben.balter.com/2023/08/30/transparency-collaboration-is-the-andon-of-knowledge-production/)
- [Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently](https://ben.balter.com/2023/08/04/remote-work-communicate-more-with-less/)
- [Pull requests are a form of documentation](https://ben.balter.com/2023/05/19/pull-requests-are-a-form-of-documentations/)

See [all posts](https://ben.balter.com/posts/) or the [RSS feed](https://ben.balter.com/feed.xml).

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