In 4 days i'll start my new role at Colabra, and honestly, I'm pretty excited about it.

I've been looking for a company that's working on something that actually matters, and Colabra feels like that. They're building tools to help scientists collaborate better... which sounds simple but is actually a huge problem. Most researchers are still stuck with tools that feel like they're from the 90s.

The welcome email they sent was... intense. In a good way? It's clear they've thought a lot about how to work as a remote team and go async first in communication. Some highlights that caught my attention:

• "Do what adds value to the team, not what you're used to". I like this pragmatic approach
• Assume good intentions when things go wrong (revolutionary, I know)
• Everything gets documented, which as a someone who's going to jump into a gigantic codebase, I deeply appreciate

The tech stack looks fun too. They're using Vue.js (i picked vue sometime 2yrs ago) and some interesting collaborative editing tech Y.js for realtime collaboration and tiptap for rich text. It's the kind of stuff that makes building a collaborative platform for scientists actually possible.

They have a really cool mission: "increase the world's scientific output." Simple and straight to the point. They believe that better tools can help scientists discover things faster, and honestly, why shouldn't that be possible?

The team seems solid, I'll be working with engineers across different time zones, which is isnt new for me and feels like the future anyway. They're sending me actual books to read ("The First 90 Days" and "The Culture Map").

I'm curious to see what we build. If we can make scientists' lives even a little bit easier, that feels like time well spent.

More updates to come as I figure out what I'm doing here.