How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp

An inside look at the specifics of how we decide what…

Status meetings are the scourge

Status meetings are the worst kinds of meetings. Eliminate them and you’ll actually know more, save a pile of money, and regain dozens of hours a month.

Microsoft reboots war on sleep

A few years ago, Microsoft launched a Office 365 campaign with the slogan of #GetItDone. The basic premise was fitting more work into more places of your life. Well, not so much just fitting as shoving, cramming, and crunching it into every damn nook and cranny of your…

“I’m not sure if I like what I did here or not”

Hearing something special from a designer I recently interviewed

Before we make the final call on hiring a designer, we always give them a sample one-week project to do for us (we…

Let’s Chart: stop those lying line charts

I want to talk about one of the most basic tasks a data analyst will be asked to do on a regular basis: present some data over a period of time.

Let’s look at a chart of monthly sales from Noah’s Imaginary Widget Company. I see…

Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship

How I left behind my silicon dream for a saner place to work