Lars Zapf (high-performance coaching)

My conversation with @JasonFried, co-founder of @37signals. 0:00 Build Products for Yourself 1:40 Low Costs, Small Company, Enough Customers 3:06 Your Only Competition Is Your Costs 5:25 How 37signals Stays Lean 9:43 Rewriting Basecamp & Fighting Software Bloat 13:42 Why "Enough" Beats Growth 17:44 Product People vs. Business Shells 22:41 The "So What?" Mindset 27:45 Staying Close to Customers 34:43 The Reward for Good Work Is More Work 39:57 Six-Week Horizons & Compounding Decisions 45:20 Anti-Fragile Business With Tiny Units 50:55 Galápagos Product Design 52:44 Radical Authenticity Over Marketing Tricks 1:27:39 Rick Rubin & Intuition-Driven Building 1:42:25 Lightning in a Bottle & Knowing When to Stop 1:50:29 Defining Success: Pride in the Work 1:53:58 Independence Through Profitability 1:59:23 When Tech Adds Friction Instead of Value 2:04:11 Ruthless Editing & What Never Changes 2:08:14 Longevity as the Moat 2:17:28 Building by Intuition Includes paid partnerships.

Basecamp turns 22 today! It's amazing how durable the original mission statement has been: Project management is primarily about communication. Ensuring the ball isn't dropped, that the right people are kept in the loop, and that you have a great bird's eye sense of what's going on inside a team. Now that mission no longer just include teams of people, but teams of agents too. We've been introducing multiple agents into our own Basecamp projects already, letting them use the human affordances that are already there, and preparing to release the temporary crutches needed to make things even easier until the agents get faster (new official CLI will drop shortly!). It's an incredibly exciting time to be making software. Nobody knows what things are going to look like next year, let alone next month. So within all that uncertainty, it's great to still be in business, still doing great, still learning, still sharing, still building Basecamp. A huge thanks to all our customers who've made that possible for well over two decades now. The millions of people who've used Basecamp to get things done. Everyone who've paid for Basecamp has voted for more Rails, more Hotwire, more Kamal, more Fizzy, more open source of all shapes and sizes, and more independent software making. signalvnoise.com/archives/000542

@markminervini My 5 EUR Cent. 😉 I lived 18 years in a socialist country and I hated it. But we had innovation and a ok health system. Capitalism is a system that more like nature. The strongest survives. Trading is no noble profession. We produce nothing. We innovate nothing.