# Spotlight: James Stanier (Author) Interview and AMA! **URL:** \ **Category:** In The Spotlight\ **Tags:** pragprog, remote, book-effective-remote-work\ **Created:** [17 January 2022 20:06 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/spotlight-james-stanier-author-interview-and-ama/36826 "2022-01-17T20:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![jstanier](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/jstanier/32/3840_2.png) [@jstanier](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/jstanier)\ **Post date:** [19 January 2022 19:55 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/spotlight-james-stanier-author-interview-and-ama/36826/5 "2022-01-19T19:55:56Z")
That’s a good point. It takes a long time to change habits, and forcing rules to make people change rarely results in a good outcome. So the question is, what little habit changes can you try each day? This is especially effective if you’re the leader of a team. Can you move a video call stand-up to be a written one, perhaps on whichever chat software you use? There are tools like Geekbot that allow you to automate this on Slack. Instead of having synchronous project update meetings, can those instead move to a weekly or fortnightly digest via email? There’s lots of ways that the synchronous can be made more asynchronous. I’d say it’s less about specific _tools_ that can enforce the change, but it’s more about trying to make it 1% different every day, and seeing what works for you and your team. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/spotlight-james-stanier-author-interview-and-ama/36826)._