REWORK

Signal v. Noise - 1:49

Episode 01, "Sell Your By-products" - 2:00

"Signal v. Noise moves to Medium" - 2:37

Jason Fried and Adam Stoddard - 2:48

Medium's changed policy on custom domains - 3:55

Medium's membership program - 6:10

A Vox article on how Tumblr's ban on adult content negatively affects the broader community - 7:30

History of WordPress - 9:55

A Quartz article on how WordPress employees work remotely - 10:03

Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress - 10:15

"Medium has been great for us" - 15:51

An Atlantic article about seasonally attired porch geese - 20:00

Marie Kondo’s official website - 00:14

Marie Kondo's interpreter is Marie Iida and here's a Quartz interview with her - 00:28

Author Courtney Milan's Twitter thread on Marie Kondo's misunderstood advice about books - 00:49

Everything Wailin learned about arguing on social media she learned from DHH in the "Pick A Fight" episode of Rework - 1:00

The Life Changing-Magic of Tidying Up - 1:12

Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck - 6:42

The history of the We Work Remotely job board is written up in the last entry of this page of the Basecamp handbook - 9:06

Basecamp decided to sunset Highrise in 2018. Read Jason's note on the Highrise website - 9:32

On Thursday, November 8, Basecamp 3 went down for almost five hours. It was the worst outage to hit the company in a decade and a stress test of Basecamp's practices around internal communication, customer support, and calm work. Today's episode goes inside the company on November 8 to see how the outage unfolded.

Show Notes

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's most recent book, It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work - 1:41

Basecamp's Support team - 6:03

Basecamp's Status page - 6:40

DHH's timeline from November 8 and his post-mortem, published on Signal v. Noise - 6:46

Our episode on "How to Say You're Sorry" - 15:57

We tried to record an episode, but there were more important things to talk about. See you in 2019 with more episodes of REWORK.

After yet another round of revelations about Facebook's use of customer data, Basecamp has decided to become 100% Facebook-free. We've actually been off Facebook proper for a while, but on Wednesday we decided to remove the company from Instagram and WhatsApp as well. This is a conversation with Basecamp's CTO, David Heinemeier Hansson, about making that decision and why he thinks you should follow in Basecamp's footsteps.

On the last episode of Rework, we talked about the dangers of using violent language in a business context. We've had to grapple with other kinds of problematic language at Basecamp as well. In this mini bonus episode, Shaun talks to programmer Jeremy Daer about shedding harmful terms for database relationships that persist in the industry.

The Brigham Young/Utah "Holy War" game is so famous it gets its own Wikipedia entry - 00:03

Steve Jobs' quote about going "thermonuclear" against Android was first revealed in Walter Isaacson's biography - 1:18

Joshua Gubler's website - 1:49

David Wood's website - 1:57

Joshua Gubler and David's research, conducted with Nathan Kalmoe of George Washington University, was published in the Journal of Business Ethics in September 2015 - 3:20

Planet Money did a story about The Art of War's popularity in business culture - 9:33

If you have anxiety about late-stage capitalism like Wailin does, you should read this article by Alexis Madrigal - 11:08

The Center for Nonviolent Communication - 13:07

Check out Elizabeth's previous appearance on Rework - 13:25

Books by Basecamp - 00:18

Harper Business - 3:52

Adam Stoddard, Basecamp's marketing designer and the designer of the new book's cover - 4:01

Jason Zimdars, Basecamp designer and book illustrator - 5:26

Mike Rohde, the illustrator for Rework and Remote - 5:45

Charles Darwin on Daily Routines, a blog that became the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, edited by Mason Currey. The book was an important reference for the illustrations. - 7:05

Jason Zimdars' Signal v. Noise post on how he illustrated the new book - 18:20

You can watch the entire pilot of Small Wonder on YouTube, or you can be like Shaun and staunchly refuse because you find the entire thing creepy, which is also fair. - 10:20

The Economist review of the book (you might hit a paywall) - 13:49

Blade Runner 2049 baseline test - 25:55

You can read David's write-up of the book launch debacle on Signal v. Noise.

Rachel Ernst, VP of employee success at Reflektive - 00:41

Reflektive’s #MyWorstPerformanceReview contest and the winners - 2:12

Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson’s classic screed against fundraising and startup culture - 7:00

Reflektive’s press release on its $60M Series C - 7:32

Watch a real-life design review with Conor and Basecamp CEO Jason Fried - 13:46

Hey, did you know we at Basecamp haaaaaaate meetings with the fire of a thousand suns? - 19:24

Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 3 (Pastoral), 4th Movement - 26:00

Behold the wonder of raclette - 00:59

Looking for a calm company while job searching - 2:33

How a business that deals with clients can work more calmly - 4:24

The 37signals manifesto - 6:03

Applying calm principles in a school setting - 8:40

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say most schools start too early - 10:24

Alfie Kohn’s website. DHH recommends Punished by Rewards and The Myth of the Spoiled Child - 11:50

How to start a calm company when there’s limited runway - 13:51

Listen to our previous episode, “You Need Less Than You Think“ - 16:11

How Basecamp recovers from periods of non-calm - 19:05

Healthy ways for co-founders or partners to disagree - 22:56

J.P. Graziano, the Italian sub shop where Shaun buys lunch almost every day. We also featured the business on this episode of our previous podcast. - 28:19