Shape Up Roundtable

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Shape Up Roundtable

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Jul 30, 2019

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Last week's episode, an introduction to Shape Up - 00:11Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer - 00:18Ryan Singer on Twitter - 1:18Conor Muirhead on Twitter - 1:22Jeff 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 breaker" - 21:16"Risks and Rabbit Holes" - 22:15"Watch out for grab-bags" - 23:43"Decide When to Stop" - 25:50"Bets, Not Backlogs" - 28:26

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Jul 30, 2019

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A podcast by Basecamp about the better way to work and run your business. We bring you stories and unconventional wisdom from Basecamp’s co-founders and other business owners.

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Can You Sell Water? Part 1: Selling is a core skill. You have to know how to sell, whether it's a product, an idea, or yourself. In 2012, Basecamp CEO Jason Fried saw the results of a bottled water-selling challenge at Techstars Chicago, a bootcamp program for startups. That one-da by REWORK
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Planning is Guessing: Basecamp's founders never wrote a business plan when they started the company. Even today, they don't like to look too far ahead. Too much long-term planning can hamper your ability to react to the present. Did you have plans to listen to this episode la by REWORK
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Pick A Fight (on Twitter): Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson is known for many things, including creating Ruby on Rails and writing business books. He also has a knack for arguing with people on the Internet. This cheerfully profane conversation explores how Twitter is like a by REWORK
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Say No: It's easy to say yes, whether it's to a customer request or a deadline from your boss. But saying yes too many times can result in an unmanageable workload or distract you from the stuff you really want to be doing. It's good to practice saying no and se by REWORK
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Sell Your By-products: Welcome to the first episode of Rework! This podcast is based on Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's 2010 best-selling business book, which was itself based on years of blogging. So what better way to kick off this show than talking about byproduc by REWORK
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Can You Sell Water? Part 2: Some of the tech industry's most vaunted companies revel in their origins as mavericks or rule-breakers, having flouted regulations in the name of disruption. That kind of risk-taking is celebrated in Silicon Valley but punished in other places, most not by REWORK
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Workaholics Aren't Heroes: Being tired isn't a badge of honor. There, we said it. We've been saying this for a while now, because our culture loves to glorify toiling long hours for its own sake and we think that leads to subpar work and general misery. In this episode, we talk to by REWORK
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You Need Less Than You Think: Who needs a fancy office when you can work out of a dingy food court? Who needs fancy equipment when you can buy what you need at Walmart? Who needs to hire an SEO specialist? What does an SEO specialist do, anyway? (A question for another episode, or ma by REWORK
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Don't Be Fake: Hey, are you crushing it? It seems like everyone is constantly crushing it in the business world. But maybe it would be better if we were honest about our flaws, talked like ourselves, and aimed to be genuine instead of super polished. In this episode: A by REWORK
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BONUS - Jason Fried at INDUSTRY 2017: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried talks about ideas with Paul McAvinchey, co-founder of Product Collective, at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in September 2017. by REWORK
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The Bean Machine: *taps mic* Is this thing on? We're back from sabbatical! In our first post-hiatus episode, Shaun heads to Denver to visit his sister, who left a catering job at a big restaurant chain to run a coffee shop out of a Volkswagen Bus that she bought on impuls by REWORK
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Meetings Are Toxic: You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll gnash your teeth in recognition as you hear the stories of horrible meetings we collected for this episode. Meetings are one of the worst kinds of workplace interruptions. They're held too frequently, run too long, a by REWORK
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Rework Mailbag 1 - Part 1: This is the first of two episodes where Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson answer questions from our listeners. In this episode, they talk about the role of luck and timing in starting Basecamp; ass pricing (yes, you read that correctly); hiring in by REWORK
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Please Don't Like This: At Basecamp, we're in the midst of a debate over an Applause feature that was designed to improve communication but might be stoking unwanted anxiety. In this episode, CTO David Heinemeier Hansson and iOS designer Tara Mann present different sides of the by REWORK
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Start Making Something: New year, new you! If you started 2018 with an idea for a product, business, or creative pursuit, now is the time to start making something. In this episode: A tabletop game designer finds that sometimes, all you need to get going is a pack of index card by REWORK
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Life After Shark Tank: The ABC show Shark Tank is irresistible reality programming: Entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to a panel of famous investors and have the potential to make a life-changing deal. But as with any reality show, there's much more to the Shark Tank experi by REWORK
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BONUS - Jason Fried On To-Do Notifications: Special bonus episode where Jason Fried discusses some of the thinking that goes into making a very small change to the to-do feature in Basecamp. by REWORK
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BONUS - The Price of Basecamp's Water: Some leftover bits that didn't make it into the last episode. by REWORK
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BONUS - Dan Miller on Outsourcing: Dan Miller of Mulberrys Garment Care talks outsourcing, bootstrapping, and growing slowly in some leftover bits we couldn't quite fit into episode 14. by REWORK
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It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work - Part 1: Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson have a new book out called It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work, which pushes back against the toxic culture of overwork and unhealthy ambitions that’s driving much of the modern workplace. In this episode, Wailin by REWORK
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Big Integer: 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 ins by REWORK
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