photo by Michael Prince for Forbes I recently heard about Warren Buffet’s approach to scheduling meetings. I can’t confirm this is true (I’ve never met him), but I hear from a reputable source that he usually doesn’t set up meetings more than a day in advance. If someone wants to see him, they are told to… keep reading
Question to ask to help you hone one of your most important instincts Does that matter? Is that really worth doing? These are important questions that you should be considering often. Getting the right work done is almost always about creating less work to do. Creating less seems like an oxymoron, but it’s absolutely possible,… keep reading
Photo from Stu pendousmat Many of us starting or running businesses often have a problem — no one cares It’s the same problem high school seniors have competing to get into a good college. It’s hard. The ivy league? Yale’s acceptance rate is 6.3%. Stanford? Fogettaboutit. 4.7% About a month ago news broke that a high school senior,… keep reading
How to ask for reviews without feeling icky about it How did we go from six months of reviews on the left, to one week of reviews on the right? Frankly, the App Store ratings for Basecamp 3 after six months were embarassing. There were too few ratings for an app with this much usage and… keep reading
In this month’s Basecamp newsletter, I explained how I use Basecamp to plan the company meet-ups. Twice a year, the entire company gathers for a week in Chicago to have some face-to-face time. We all work remotely so seeing our coworkers in person is fun, novel, and a good excuse to wear shoes and catch… keep reading
Failure has a negative connotation and reasonably so; it literally means that the thing you set out to do did not happen or happened incorrectly. Looking at each step and being distressed by failure is not only a drag, it’s unproductive. Altering your perception and response to failure can make life an entirely more enjoyable… keep reading
We’re excited to be running our largest summer internship program ever at Basecamp. We have an exceptional and diverse class of eleven interns who will be joining us for the summer, and couldn’t be more thrilled to have them. The process of hiring our interns ended up being one of the hardest and most enjoyable… keep reading
When I started programming Ruby, it was on an Apple iBook G4/800. That beautiful 12” powerhouse of a 800 MHz PowerPC with a rocking 256MB of RAM. A lovely computer that was not only fast enough to run Ruby, but a pleasure to develop the first version of both Rails and Basecamp on. When Basecamp… keep reading
Golden Bell at Augusta National by Jason Denaro We were bleeding customers and needed to fix it. But where were we screwing up? Highrise launched in 2007 as simple contact management and CRM software for the web. It was created by a company named 37signals. In 2014, 37signals decided they wanted to focus on their core product,… keep reading
This week our Android team is headed to the Google I/O conference. They’ll learn how to incorporate the latest tech into Basecamp 3 on Android phones, tablets, and other devices. Meanwhile, we’ve been making regular improvements to the Basecamp 3 Android app every few weeks. Some of these new features are also unique to Basecamp… keep reading