Jonathan Courtney
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Yes, Jason is great. We actually just moved from using Slack, Asana, and Notion back to using Basecamp after a four-year break. And it is honestly refreshing. I started to have the feeling that my company was becoming like a chat room, basically. We were just on Slack all day. You just open Slack and you have all these red dots. And what I presented to my team last Monday, two weeks ago, was...
Let's not become a company that talks about doing stuff all the time and talks about making stuff all the time. And let's just go back to being a company that makes stuff. And so, yeah, I feel like Basecamp's interface is more built for just working on projects instead of talking about working on projects. In fact, it's actually quite hard to just have open dialogues within Basecamp, the product.
Let's not become a company that talks about doing stuff all the time and talks about making stuff all the time. And let's just go back to being a company that makes stuff. And so, yeah, I feel like Basecamp's interface is more built for just working on projects instead of talking about working on projects. In fact, it's actually quite hard to just have open dialogues within Basecamp, the product.
Let's not become a company that talks about doing stuff all the time and talks about making stuff all the time. And let's just go back to being a company that makes stuff. And so, yeah, I feel like Basecamp's interface is more built for just working on projects instead of talking about working on projects. In fact, it's actually quite hard to just have open dialogues within Basecamp, the product.
And this is annoying some of my team, but I love it.
And this is annoying some of my team, but I love it.
And this is annoying some of my team, but I love it.
This tweet went crazy. I never have anybody liking any of my stuff on Twitter or on X. I hate when that happens because I'm like, oh, did I do something bad? Did I post something that somehow... politically or something. And no, I opened up Twitter. I opened up X. There was a thousand notifications. I never get more than two. And so I was thinking, shit, did I make a really off-color joke?
This tweet went crazy. I never have anybody liking any of my stuff on Twitter or on X. I hate when that happens because I'm like, oh, did I do something bad? Did I post something that somehow... politically or something. And no, I opened up Twitter. I opened up X. There was a thousand notifications. I never get more than two. And so I was thinking, shit, did I make a really off-color joke?
This tweet went crazy. I never have anybody liking any of my stuff on Twitter or on X. I hate when that happens because I'm like, oh, did I do something bad? Did I post something that somehow... politically or something. And no, I opened up Twitter. I opened up X. There was a thousand notifications. I never get more than two. And so I was thinking, shit, did I make a really off-color joke?
It was just a post about Basecamp.
It was just a post about Basecamp.
It was just a post about Basecamp.
I think the way I put it, I mentioned this thing about Slack kind of became the default interface of my company and that, but like your tools in a way do determine a little bit what your work culture is like and your tools kind of, I don't know how you say it. There's probably a really nice way to say it. Like the tools determine the way you work, something about that.
I think the way I put it, I mentioned this thing about Slack kind of became the default interface of my company and that, but like your tools in a way do determine a little bit what your work culture is like and your tools kind of, I don't know how you say it. There's probably a really nice way to say it. Like the tools determine the way you work, something about that.
I think the way I put it, I mentioned this thing about Slack kind of became the default interface of my company and that, but like your tools in a way do determine a little bit what your work culture is like and your tools kind of, I don't know how you say it. There's probably a really nice way to say it. Like the tools determine the way you work, something about that.
And it was just, so I've been traveling a lot over the last few weeks and Laura and I who run the company have been rethinking the business from the ground up, but mainly from like the outside perspective. So we're going to be relaunching the business on the 2nd of October.
And it was just, so I've been traveling a lot over the last few weeks and Laura and I who run the company have been rethinking the business from the ground up, but mainly from like the outside perspective. So we're going to be relaunching the business on the 2nd of October.
And it was just, so I've been traveling a lot over the last few weeks and Laura and I who run the company have been rethinking the business from the ground up, but mainly from like the outside perspective. So we're going to be relaunching the business on the 2nd of October.
But then we started to realize to make all of these changes, we're going to have to change everything inside the business too, for everything to really work and feel different. So we're moving office. That's one big thing, moving to a new physical location, a bigger space. And that's like doubling down on us working in person together, being able to collaborate with more people.