REWORK
Episodes
HEY World
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson talk about HEY World, a new feature of the HEY email service where customers can...
A Dose of Empathy
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Equilibria, a company that makes CBD products for women, has a team of dedicated dosage specialists who do one-on-one consultations with custo...
The Humble Fungus
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A career climbing the ladder in tech and software left Jesse Noller feeling disillusioned and isolated. He found connection, community, and pu...
Greening Basecamp
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp recently set out to do a carbon accounting, looking at the company's emissions, as well as meaningful ways to offset and mitigat...
Send A Little Delight
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Comfort and joy were in short supply this year, but we're doing our best to end 2020 on a cozy note. Merissa of Basecamp support talks ab...
A Dumpster Fire of a Year
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HEY launch, App Store, we can’t take it anymoreAntitrust, masks a must, let’s go eat the upper crustComfy pants, TikTok dance, POTUS rants...
HEY for Work
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp is winding down a busy year with one more thing: the rollout of its HEY email service for the workplace. Co-founders Jason Fried and ...
Support and Console-ation
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the last several years, a group of Basecamp customer support representatives has developed an expertise around "on-call support,"...
Shape Up with Clients
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since releasing Shape Up, the book by Basecamp's Ryan Singer about our approach to product development, we've heard from other compa...
Shape Up: The Print Edition
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, Basecamp released Shape Up, a digital book by head of product strategy Ryan Singer about our approach to product development. Since t...
Take Some Time Off (We Mean It!)
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unlimited paid time off is a common perk in the tech industry, but as one company discovered, an open-ended vacation policy led to confusion a...
Create Your Own Serendipity
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More than ever, the tech industry is re-thinking how work gets done and how great ideas come to light when people are no longer linked by thei...
Better Product with Adam Stoddard
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Better Product is a podcast by Innovatemap, a digital product agency. We are playing their episode featuring Basecamp's marketing designe...
Babies at Work
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to two very different small businesses about their Babies at Work programs, where new parents can have their infants with them at the ...
Privacy Scavenger Hunt
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a corporate privacy policy on a website that was actually comprehensible and written by and for human beings. We talk to companies who...
Return to Mojito Island
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We do a quick check-in with Basecamp CEO Jason Fried about what he's been up to since launching HEY in June. He talks about running the c...
Greetings from Mojito Island
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson has been on a not-totally-intended sabbatical from both work and Twitter, and on an entir...
Selling Burnout with Anne Helen Petersen
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Culture writer Anne Helen Petersen, author of the new book Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, comes on the show to t...
Something's Broken
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp recently suffered three outages in a week. Programming lead Jeremy Daer and director of operations Troy Toman come on the show to dis...
Farewell, West Loop
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp has closed its physical office after a 10-year run in Chicago's West Loop area. In this episode, we say good-bye to the neighbor...
Exit to Community
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A group of startup founders, investors, and thinkers are reimagining corporate ownership to take into account all of the people who help build...
Apps Without Code
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're back from our August hiatus! To kick things off, we have a conversation with Tara Reed, the CEO of Apps Without Code. She started a...
Rerun - Breaking the Black Box
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson sparked a national controversy this week when he posted a series of livid tweets about how his wi...
Rerun - Nevermore, Amazon
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the spring of 2019, Danny Caine, the owner of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, overheard a customer saying she could buy a new har...
Rerun - Mr. DHH Goes to Washington
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founder and Chief Technology Officer David Heinemeier Hansson has been ranting on Twitter about monopolistic practices in Big Tech...
The Email That Changed My Life
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp probably wouldn't exist today if not for an email that David Heinemeier Hansson sent Jason Fried in 2001. That correspondence wa...
Two Weeks
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp released its new email service, HEY, on June 15. It was supposed to be a calm, controlled product launch, but what followed was a per...
Q and HEY, Part 2
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson held a recent livestream session where they answered questions about HEY, the co...
Q and HEY, Part 1
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson held a livestream session where they answered audience questions about Hey, Basecamp's new email...
Manos: The Hands of Hey
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp's marketing designer, Adam Stoddard, talks about how Hey's visual brand came to be. He discusses influences from Pixar to C...
An Email Account is Born
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To show off the features of HEY, Basecamp's new email service, we needed a fully featured and realistic demo account. That meant writing ...
Designing Hey
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp design lead Jonas Downey was one of the first people to experiment with what would eventually become Hey, Basecamp’s newly launched...
Hey, What's Going On?
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp has launched Hey, a new email platform with a strong point of view. It's also one of the stupidest things Basecamp has ever atte...
The Spy Who Emailed Me
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On June 15, Basecamp launches a new email service called Hey. One of its features is that it blocks tracking pixels that report back to the se...
The Bookshop Around the Corner
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Hunter launched Bookshop.org in January as a platform to help independent bookstores take and fulfill online orders. Shortly afterward, t...
Help Wanted
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has caused enormous job losses and forced many companies to rethink the nature of work. In this episode, two Stanford students ta...
Winston Sat At His Computer
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A growing number of companies have turned to employee surveillance software to monitor their newly remote workforce. Basecamp, which has taken...
Bubble Wrap & Prayers
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The government may not consider comic book shops, indoor plant stores, and small boutiques "essential," but these businesses are vit...
Living on Hope
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We call up our friend and former colleague Esther Lee, who lives with her husband on a 35-foot sailboat named Hope in Jacksonville, Florida. E...
Kids Incorporated
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Endless Zoom meetings, being cut off from friends, the widespread cancellation of summer fun, ricocheting between boredom and anxiety—kids h...
BONUS - Breadcamp
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecampers Nathan Anderson and Joan Stewart talk about their love of baking bread and how to get started if you're a newbie. As Joan say...
Product Strategy Q&A with Jason Fried and Ryan Singer
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CEO Jason Fried and Head of Strategy Ryan Singer talk about the Shape Up approach to product development that we use at Basecamp. They discuss...
Going Remote: Kids at Home
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Several of Basecamp's working parents talk about (not) getting things done with small children around, navigating responsibilities and fe...
The Soul of an Entrepreneur
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Sax is the author of the new book The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth. He comes on the show to debunk the...
Going Remote: Customer Support
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Going Remote is a series of bonus episodes where different Basecampers answer questions about how they do their work remotely. In this episode...
Work Out From Home
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fitness studios, like many other businesses, had to scramble to change over from in-person to virtual operations almost overnight. In this epi...
Going Remote: Design
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're starting a new series of bonus episodes called Going Remote. We'll have different Basecampers answer questions about how they ...
Phone a Friend
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're back from hiatus! In this episode, we sit down with Quaker theologian and small business owner Wess Daniels, the author of the book...
Remote Work: Extreme Edition (Rerun)
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We place a long-distance phone call to Antarctica to chat with Kathrin Mallot, an astrophysicist who works at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory...
Remote Work Q&A, Part 2
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of a two-hour live Q&A on remote work that Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson held last week. Part 2 covers ...
The Distance: Steeped In History
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nom Wah Tea Parlor is New York Chinatown’s oldest dim sum restaurant. For decades, it served Cantonese dumplings and rolls in the traditiona...
Remote Work Q&A, Part 1
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this week, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson held a live Q&A about remote work. We're splitting the session into two e...
The (Social) Distance
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp is a remote company, so we're less disrupted by the current pandemic than many other businesses, but we're still taking ste...
Work, Rest, and What You Will
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We at Basecamp love to preach the virtues of the 8-hour work day, but where did it come from? (Hint: Not from Henry Ford!) Labor historian Emi...
Rug Life
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jarred Lustgarten left a Wall Street career to start a rug-cleaning business with $600 in borrowed money and a stack of flyers. A decade later...
Delete Your Account
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp the app is over 15 years old, which means Basecamp the company is responsible for safeguarding more than a decade's worth of cus...
Extreme Capitalism with Jason Calacanis
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson and entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis debate the gig economy, democratic so...
Poetry at Work
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some of our most famous poets had day jobs: Robert Burns was a tax collector; William Carlos Williams was a doctor; Audre Lorde was a libraria...
Try Everything
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every year for the past decade, Mert Iseri has chosen a new skill to learn. This annual challenge has taken him from a magicians' club to...
The Road Out Of Startupland
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sahil Lavingia once believed his startup was headed for unicorn status, but his journey through Silicon Valley—the viral launch on Hacker Ne...
Mr. DHH Goes to Washington
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founder and Chief Technology Officer David Heinemeier Hansson has been ranting on Twitter about monopolistic practices in Big Tech...
You Never Forget George Pappageorge
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried is back in the studio with an update on the company's Chicago headquarters. Basecamp will be leaving its office ...
Less Business, More d20s
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Vincent, a member of Basecamp's Ops team, spoke at Nomad City 2019 about life as a remote worker. Close your eyes and pretend you...
Welcome Aboard
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! We're kicking off the new year with an episode full of practical advice about onboarding new employees. Ashley Bowe from Ba...
BONUS - The Knight Before Christmas
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners may remember that last year Wailin watched ALL of the holiday rom-coms and decided to share them with me on our ill-advised holiday ...
Are The Kids Alright?
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this anxious era of bullying, teen depression, and school shootings, tech companies are selling software to schools and parents that make b...
Lab Week
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Get out your Bunsen burner! It's time to do some experiments. In this episode, we talk to two businesses that aren't afraid to try n...
Venture Capital and Control with Dave Teare
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Teare is the co-founder and official "heart and soul" of 1Password, which recently raised $200 million in its first round of ve...
Calm in the Political Storm
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Workplace cultures in politics and tech share many similarities: Overwork is glorified; long hours are the norm; employees are expected to res...
BONUS - Basecamp: This Time It's Personal
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp has a long history of experimenting with "freemium" models and recently launched its most generous free plan yet: Basecamp ...
Spending in the Clouds
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp has cut back its reliance on Amazon and Google, but there's one area where it's tough to find alternatives to Big Tech: clo...
BONUS - Breaking the Black Box
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson sparked a national controversy this week when he posted a series of livid tweets about how his wi...
Big Brother at the Office
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Meller - 00:25"What is SSL?" - 1:13This is Outback Steakhouse's page for the Bloomin' Onion, which is categorized as...
Rework Mailbag 5
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard - 2:57Max Temkin is a Chicagoan and a co-creator of Cards Against Humanity - 4:01Little Free Libr...
A Hosty Retreat
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Art19 - 1:02The Distance - 1:09Tweet from Kevin Finn to DHH / "Heal the Internet" - 1:15Buzzsprout - 1:21Video about Art19's ne...
Meet Andy
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"In the Market for a Marketer," our previous episode - 00:22Andy Didorosi | Detroit Bus Co. - 00:50"How Detroit ended up with t...
In the Market for a Marketer
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Hire When It Hurts," our previous episode about hiring - 00:57"Farewell, Happy Camper," our episode about rebranding Base...
Nevermore, Amazon
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (IndieBound.org) - 00:40Playing a...
Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DHH on Twitter - 00:53Matt Mullenweg's website | Twitter - 00:57The Twitter conversation that started the debate - 1:07WordPress.org - 1:...
Heal the Internet
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Davidson's blog post on Superhuman, "Superhuman is Spying on You" - 00:13Mike Davidson's tweet about Superhuman - 00:...
Slow Fashion
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A GQ profile of Japan's Kapital Denim - 1:26Pure Blue jeans - 1:44Meghan Markle - 2:39For a great peek into the denim industry and its en...
Farewell, Happy Camper
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Basecamp.com - 00:19Adam Stoddard on Twitter - 00:29"Connecting the dots: How we put a smile on the Basecamp logo" (Signal v. Noise,...
BONUS - The Google Ads Shakedown
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jason's tweet - 00:18"Six Hours of Phone Calls," our episode about hiring an SEO consultant - 00:44Adam Stoddard, Basecamp&apos...
The Cult of Overwork
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ty Fujimura on Twitter - 00:52Ty's Medium essay, "The Cult of Overwork (And How to Avoid It)" - 00:54Cantilever website - 1:10C...
BONUS - 37signals Podcast - Q&A with Jason and David
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking off the month of August! During our hiatus, we'll be playing some vintage episodes of the 37signals Podcast, a show tha...
BONUS - 37signals Podcast - Making People Pay
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking off the month of August! During our hiatus, we'll be playing some vintage episodes of the 37signals Podcast, a show tha...
BONUS - 37signals Podcast - Valuation Tales
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking off the month of August! During our hiatus, we'll be playing some vintage episodes of the 37signals Podcast, a show tha...
No Half Measures
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our previous two episodes, Shape Up and Shape Up Roundtable - 00:37Welcome Industries website | Twitter | Instagram - 1:16Pam's bio at No...
Shape Up Roundtable
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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:...
Shape Up with Ryan Singer
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Books by Basecamp - 00:13Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters - 00:17Ryan on Twitter - 00:19Breadboard on Wikipedia an...
Hire When It Hurts
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Big Integer, our episode about the outage - 3:56DHH's posts on subsequent outages - 3:59"Basecamp is hiring a Head of Marketing"...
Last Week with Jason Fried: Six Hours of Phone Calls
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Stoddard on Twitter - 00:45Jason's tweet asking for SEO consultant recommendations - 1:36For more on design challenges as part of th...
The Open Office
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A peek inside Basecamp's office in Chicago - 00:21"The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea" (Signa...
Long-Time Snacker, First-Time Caller
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki Sylianteng on Twitter - 00:34"Thanks to Popular Demand, Planters Cheez Balls and Cheez Curls Are Back" (Kraft Heinz press rele...
We Love the Subs
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonas Downey on Twitter - 00:08Quiznos website - 00:21"We Love the Subs" commercial - 00:46Joel Veitch's site, Rathergood - 3:0...
Open Source Beyond the Market
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a lightly edited version of a keynote address Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson delivered at RailsConf 2019 about &...
How Buffer Meets Up
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Buffer's website - 1:24Carolyn Kopprasch on Twitter - 1:45Buffer CEO Joel Gascoigne on Twitter - 11:32Buffer's Open blog - 22:59&quo...
James Glazebrook at Support Driven Expo Europe 2019
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In April, Basecamp Support team member James Glazebrook gave a talk at Support Driven Expo Europe about Everyone On Support. It's an all-...
Rework Mailbag 4
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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DHH on The Heartbeat Podcast
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To listen to more of The Heartbeat Podcast, visit https://knowyourteam.com/blog/podcast/ or look for the show wherever you listen to podcasts....