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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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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]
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]
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