Ideas for work
A brand is always answering two questions. The first one internally facing: What do we believe? The second, externally: How do we behave? You must remain authentic to yourself, your core values, and what you stand for. If you’re not, people will sniff you out. But your brand must maintain cultural congruence — remaining relevant to the times, alway... See more
wearecollins.com • 101 Design Rules
You Exist In The Long Context
thelongcontext.com
“Grind it out. You can make something look like magic by going further than most reasonable people would go.” https://t.co/Auij077iEM
The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it might also make sense to start an internal book club.
Will Larson • Reminiscing: the retreat to comforting work.
There’s a fountain of happiness and productivity in working with a stable crew. It’s absolutely key to how we’re able to do so much with so few at Basecamp. We’re baffled that such a competitive advantage isn’t more diligently sought.
Jason Fried • It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
During work, they sometimes have “deep work” or dark mode, where they snooze all notifications from the rest of the team and turn on a sunglasses emoji (😎) on all of their internal communications systems to tell the rest of the team not to disturb them.