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Ep.11. Nomadic CTO, Long Distance Leadership, and a tech team 1000s of miles apart

Season 2, Ep. 11

This week on the Talent Equals Podcast, we are joined by Jezen Thomas, CTO and digital nomad of Supercede a fully distributed, dynamic new reinsurance ecosystem.


This was a brilliant discussion on the now very relevant concept of distributed working and Jezen gives us some great insights into how remote working is best implemented.


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William Laitinen

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- Exige Website: https://www.exigeinternational.com/

- Talent Equals Website: https://talentequals.com/


Jezen Thomas

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jezen/


Supercede:

- Website: https://supercede.com/

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/supercede1/


Recommended Books:

Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

What If - Randal Munroe

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

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