Published inSignal v. NoiseSignal v Noise exits MediumThree years ago we embraced an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we…Feb 11, 201915Feb 11, 201915
I’m done with MediumIf you want to follow my writing, please follow our newly relaunched Signal v Noise blog. I’ll be dedicating my efforts there.Jan 18, 20198Jan 18, 20198
Published inSignal v. NoiseBecome A Facebook-Free BusinessIf Facebook’s endless privacy scandals have shown one thing, it’s that the company has far too much data on its users, and that they can’t…Dec 19, 201840Dec 19, 201840
Published inSignal v. NoiseHow about fixing the workplace rather than avoiding it at 4am?Oh those superhuman CEOs who get up at 4am for that killer start to the day! Aren’t they just amazing? Such sacrifice, such grit, such…Dec 18, 20184Dec 18, 20184
Published inSignal v. NoiseAll Basecamp policies are now on GitHub and licensed under creative commonsWe try hard to write good policies at Basecamp. Make them plain and easy to understand. Without out all the dreaded legalese. By humans…Dec 14, 20185Dec 14, 20185
Published inSignal v. NoiseThe AI apocalypse is already hereWe don’t need to wait for the singularity before artificial intelligence becomes capable of turning the world into a dystopian nightmare…Nov 27, 201812Nov 27, 201812
Published inSignal v. NoiseYou probably won’t make it to the topIf you really set your mind to it, you can do it. Get to the very top. Beat out all the others. That’s how I did it. I just wanted it more…Nov 23, 201815Nov 23, 201815
Regret-stergramI left Instagram for the first time in 2012 over the Terms of Service debacle. When I returned in 2015, Instagram was something else. Gone…Nov 20, 201813Nov 20, 201813
Published inSignal v. NoiseDear JeffI‘ve been thinking about your regret minimization framework for making decisions lately. I don’t recall whether I read about it in an…Nov 13, 201818Nov 13, 201818
Published inSignal v. NoisePostmortem on the read-only outage of Basecamp on November 9th, 2018Last Thursday, November 9th, Basecamp 3 was in read-only mode for almost five hours starting 7:21am CST and ending 12:11pm CST. That meant…Nov 12, 201857Nov 12, 201857