REWORK

In this anxious era of bullying, teen depression, and school shootings, tech companies are selling software to schools and parents that make big promises about keeping kids secure by monitoring what they say and write online. But these apps demand disturbing trade-offs in the name of safety. In this episode, we dive into the normative, privacy, and transparency implications of this software for bo...

Get out your Bunsen burner! It's time to do some experiments. In this episode, we talk to two businesses that aren't afraid to try new things. First, the three founders of The Mad Optimist, a soap company in Indiana, talk about letting customers choose what they pay for their products. Then Natalie Nagele, the co-founder and CEO of software company Wildbit, talks about an ongoing experim...

Dave Teare is the co-founder and official "heart and soul" of 1Password, which recently raised $200 million in its first round of venture capital. Basecamp is a longtime happy customer of 1Password and also a longtime critic of venture capital, so the funding announcement led to some back-and-forth on Twitter between Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson and Dave Teare. In this ep...

Workplace cultures in politics and tech share many similarities: Overwork is glorified; long hours are the norm; employees are expected to respond to communication instantly, no matter the day or time; and those that opt out are seen as lacking hustle or ceding ground to competitors. Marty Santalucia, a political consultant in Pennsylvania, wanted to do things differently. In this episode, he talk...

Basecamp has a long history of experimenting with "freemium" models and recently launched its most generous free plan yet: Basecamp Personal. Co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson talk about the debate and data analysis that went into the launch, what makes this a little scary, and why it's healthy for a business to experiment. Show Notes "Launch: Basecamp Gets P...

Basecamp has cut back its reliance on Amazon and Google, but there's one area where it's tough to find alternatives to Big Tech: cloud services. Even so, there are ways to cut spending on this $3 million annual expense while keeping the company's apps running smoothly. In this episode, Blake Stoddard on Basecamp's Ops team talks about how he volunteered to look for savings on c...

Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson sparked a national controversy this week when he posted a series of livid tweets about how his wife received a much lower credit limit than he did on their Apple Cards, despite applying with the same financial information. What began as a rant against opaque algorithms turned into a regulatory investigation and more. In this episode, Dr. Ruha Benjamin o...

Jason Meller - 00:25 "What is SSL?" - 1:13 This is Outback Steakhouse's page for the Bloomin' Onion , which is categorized as an "Aussie-tizer." Yes, that's what Outback calls appetizers. I cannot un-know this fact and now I pass it to you. - 2:43 "At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms" (Wired) - 2:51 "Presto Launches Computer Vis...

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard - 2:57 Max Temkin is a Chicagoan and a co-creator of Cards Against Humanity - 4:01 Little Free Library - 4:04 Maverick by Ricardo Semler - 4:48 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters by Warren Buffett - 5:27 Amazon's 2018 shareholder letter by Jeff Bezos - 5:38 Listen to our previous episodes about hiring a director of marketing, "In the Marke...

Art19 - 1:02 The Distance - 1:09 Tweet from Kevin Finn to DHH / "Heal the Internet" - 1:15 Buzzsprout - 1:21 Video about Art19's new ad technology - 1:28 DHH's tweet about leaving Art19 ASAP - 3:23 Transistor - 3:52 Lex Friedman - 4:16 "Breaking: Two Top Stitcher Executives leave for Art19" (Hot Pod) - 10:58 California Consumer Privacy Act (Wikipedia) - 23:20 Justin J...

"In the Market for a Marketer," our previous episode - 00:22 Andy Didorosi | Detroit Bus Co. - 00:50 "How Detroit ended up with the worst public transit" (Detroit Metro Times, 2014) - 1:45 "Baby Shark (doo doo do doo do doo), explained" (Vox) - 16:00 Jalopnik - 17:15 Andy's talk at the 2014 Adobe 99U Conference, "What Detroit Taught Me About Getting Things D...

"Hire When It Hurts," our previous episode about hiring - 00:57 "Farewell, Happy Camper," our episode about rebranding Basecamp - 1:51 A Signal v. Noise post by Jason about design challenges for job candidates - 4:26 Detroit Bus Co. - 11:17

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (IndieBound.org) - 00:40 Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson (IndieBound.org) - 1:14 "Independent Women," our previous podcast's episode about Women & Children First bookstor...

DHH on Twitter - 00:53 Matt Mullenweg's website | Twitter - 00:57 The Twitter conversation that started the debate - 1:07 WordPress.org - 1:40 Automattic website - 1:45 Automattic's Series D funding announcement - 1:54 Matt Mullenweg's interview with TechCrunch - 3:30 "Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: Sleep Is Our Competition" (Fast Company) - 9:19 A 2005 demo by DHH on creating...

Mike Davidson's blog post on Superhuman, "Superhuman is Spying on You" - 00:13 Mike Davidson's tweet about Superhuman - 00:35 "Marking the end of pixel trackers in Basecamp emails" and "Let's stop shaking people down for their email addresses" (Signal v. Noise) - 00:57 "You can heal the internet" (Signal v. Noise) - 1:18 The EU's official...

A GQ profile of Japan's Kapital Denim - 1:26 Pure Blue jeans - 1:44 Meghan Markle - 2:39 For a great peek into the denim industry and its environmental impact, we recommend this episode of the Articles of Interest podcast - 2:57 David Hieatt - 3:18 Hiut Denim | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter - 3:20 A 2002 BBC story about the closure of the Dewhirst jeans plant in Cardigan - 3:58 Howies - 4:20...

Basecamp.com - 00:19 Adam Stoddard on Twitter - 00:29 "Connecting the dots: How we put a smile on the Basecamp logo" (Signal v. Noise, October 2015) - 1:22 You can see the 37signals logo in the upper right corner of this website - 3:48 37signals changed its name to Basecamp in 2014 - 4:20  Jonathan Van Ness - 5:23 Garmin's BaseCamp - 6:51 The original 37signals manifesto - 8:40 Pent...

Jason's tweet - 00:18 " Six Hours of Phone Calls ," our episode about hiring an SEO consultant - 00:44 Adam Stoddard , Basecamp's marketing designer - 2:17 CNBC's story on Jason's tweet - 3:35 CNN story on Burger King's mobile app promotion that trolled McDonald's - 10:18

Ty Fujimura on Twitter - 00:52 Ty's Medium essay , "The Cult of Overwork (And How to Avoid It)" - 00:54 Cantilever website - 1:10 Cal Newport's website - 8:47 "The Cult of Overwork," James Surowiecki's New Yorker piece - 22:56 Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken - 25:54 (Wailin would like to say that she describes the circus trick incorrectly: The rider actually mou...

We're taking off the month of August! During our hiatus, we'll be playing some vintage episodes of the 37signals Podcast, a show that Basecamp ran from 2009-2011 (and then forgot all about until Wailin came across the show during an unrelated Google search). In this episode, Basecamp (then 37signals) co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson answer questions from Signal v. Noi...

We're taking off the month of August! During our hiatus, we'll be playing some vintage episodes of the 37signals Podcast, a show that Basecamp ran from 2009-2011 (and then forgot all about until Wailin came across the show during an unrelated Google search). In this episode, Basecamp (then 37signals) co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson talk about when to give something a...

We're taking off the month of August! During our hiatus, we'll be playing some vintage episodes of the 37signals Podcast, a show that Basecamp ran from 2009-2011 (and then forgot all about until Wailin came across the show during an unrelated Google search). In this episode, Basecamp (then 37signals) co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson discuss a satirical press release t...

Our previous two episodes, Shape Up and Shape Up Roundtable - 00:37 Welcome Industries website | Twitter | Instagram - 1:16 Pam's bio at Northwestern University - 1:31 Brandon Williams' website - 3:31 Umbra - 3:39 Brandon's original idea for Float | Umbra product page - 3:54 Kickstarter for the cork bag - 5:23 Kickstarter for the photo frame - 5:56 Kickstarter for the measuring cups...

Last week's episode , an introduction to Shape Up - 00:11 Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer - 00:18 Ryan Singer on Twitter - 1:18 Conor Muirhead on Twitter - 1:22 Jeff Hardy on Twitter - 1:27 "Get One Piece Done" - 5:08 "Affordances before pixel-perfect screens" - 10:02 "Work is like a hill" - 12:44 "The circuit brea...

Books by Basecamp - 00:13 Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters - 00:17 Ryan on Twitter - 00:19 Breadboard on Wikipedia and in Shape Up - 6:30 Forrest M. Mims III on Wikipedia - 7:00 "Planning is Guessing," our episode featuring Jason Fried on six-week cycles (his segment starts at 10:03). See also his Signal v. Noise post, "What six weeks of work looks like&q...