Ideas for work

The only metric that matters to me

At Basecamp we don't manage our products with numbers. No goals, no KPIs, OKRs, or WHATEVERs. We do keep a close eye on performance and speed numbers as they relate to infrastructure, serving up pages, and rendering screens, but that's the extent of our number gazing. We aren't flying blind — there are reports ava

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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.

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

“Grind it out. You can make something look like magic by going further than most reasonable people would go.” https://t.co/Auij077iEM

The teams are currently structured by function (product, R&D, design, business, etc.), and different teams think about different layers of the company and stack. But all energy is directed toward improving the core product. We design objectives that translate to common top-level metrics and improve the user experience holistically. For example,... See more