Liam Martin joined me fresh off the stage at Running Remote's 10th event, a milestone that puts into sharp relief just how much the landscape has shifted since that scrappy little secret called remote work became the world's crash course in 2020. What started as documentation, async, and trust has evolved into something far bigger: the realization that the skills and culture remote-first organizations built out of necessity are now the precise prerequisites for becoming AI-native.

The conversation moved fast, from the absurdity of AI writing reports that humans then feed back into AI to decode, to a genuinely new management KPI (watch your team's token usage, not just their hours), to Liam's central thesis for this year's keynote: we are no longer simply managing distributed people, we are managing distributed intelligence. And the remote community, almost by accident, got there first.

Please join me in welcoming Liam Martin back to the Work 20XX Podcast.

Editor's Note: Recorded May 2026 at the Running Remote conference in Austin, Texas. Special thanks to Liam, Egor, Ana, and Team Running Remote.

Liam Martin: Distributed Intelligence, AI-Native Organizations, Remote-to-AI Pipeline | Work 20XX podcast with Jeff Frick from Running Remote 2026 Austin

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