Managing technical teams spread across different countries is a challenge worth conquering. This is an operating system for bringing people together around shared, complicated tasks, when all you have is Slack, git and video meetings. The work itself is already hard, good team people are hard to find - but how you manage the team determines how much everyone can bring to the table.
I've learned some stuff the hard way, and developed my own techniques to handle teams - I'm sharing my operating system.