Shape Up: Stop running in circles
One of my heroes is Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp, the project management system we have used for over a decade. Like us, he and his company have been working… [more]
Distance and Dial-ups: How We’ve Survived 26 Years As a Distributed Team
from DesignToast, the AIGA/LA e-magazine aimed at fellow designers My job has disappeared. My IBM PC is in the trunk of my car. It’s August 1993. Somehow, the 90’s recession… [more]
Fear of asking
Why is it so damn scary to ask for referrals? What if you don’t get them? Is it because people don’t like you? Because you’re lousy at your job? Because… [more]
Writer’s block is stupid
I just posted an article here that I’d been somehow withholding since June. I agonized over it, showed it to people I trusted, and got a little editing help from… [more]
Gratitude. Gratefulness.
Environmental designer (and old friend) Joe Terrell sent me this. My reaction was “Yeah, yeah, I’ll get to it when I have time.” Today, I had time.
As my wise… [more]
Serving clients with Fierce Love
Michael Bungay Stanier is a business coach who puts out a tiny daily email that you can read in 30 seconds. It’s called Great Work Provocations. The e-blast starts my… [more]
Working remotely — pros, cons and choices
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Our upcoming office move got me thinking (again) about the way we’re structured. Since we opened in 1993, FreeAssociates has been a distributed company: a group of colleagues who… [more]
Turn any website into an app on your Mac
At FreeAssociates, we manage our projects with Basecamp, a wonderful, simple online system from 37Signals. I’m constantly closing the window — accidentally or through force of habit — then having… [more]
What else is new?
The Gold is back! May 20,2022- Honoring a loved one May 19,2022
- Raising funds to help kids zoom May 7,2022
- Money for a mustache? September 2,2021
- Our dumb passwords August 25,2021
