Work Futures Update | 2020–01–18
| Basecamp Principles | Amy Edmundson on Side Conversations and Sick Cultures | Paul Valery |
Beacon NY 2020–01–18 | Only two dailies this week, because of the combination of a pulled back muscle keeping me from my desk, and plumbers removing the radiators and heating pipes from my house.
The Quote of the Week
The future arrived but it’s lazy.
| Paul Valéry
Stories
Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way | Basecamp has a great set of principles for internal communications, like these:
2 | Real-time sometimes, asynchronous most of the time.
3 | Internal communication based on long-form writing, rather than a verbal tradition of meetings, speaking, and chatting, leads to a welcomed reduction in meetings, video conferences, calls, or other real-time opportunities to interrupt and be interrupted.
4 | Give meaningful discussions a meaningful amount of time to develop and unfold. Rushing to judgement, or demanding immediate responses, only serves to increase the odds of poor decision making.
5 | Meetings are the last resort, not the first option.
