REWORK

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Our previous episode - 0:11

It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson - 0:19

Rework by Jason Fried and DHH - 0:37

The story of Squatty Potty - 1:13

This Unicorn Changed the Way I Poop, the original viral video - 1:28

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...

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? -...

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

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