*This article is crossposted from *IEEE Spectrum*’s careers newsletter. Sign up now** to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and *delivered to your inbox for free! ## Standing Out as a Remote Worker Takes a Different Strategy My first experience as a remote worker was a disaster. Before I joined a San Francisco-based team with a lead developer in Connecticut, I had worked in person, five days a week. I thought success was simple: write good code, solve hard problems, deliver results. So I put my head down and worked harder than ever. Twelve-hour days became normal as the boundary between work and personal life disappeared. My kitchen table became my office. I rarely asked for help because I didn’t want to seem incompetent. I stayed quiet in team Slack channels because I wasn’t sure what to say. Despite working some of the longest hours of my career, I made the slowest progress. I felt disconnected from the team.…