The Best of Signal vs. Noise
Business
- ⋆ Some advice from Jeff Bezos
- ⋆ Video: Cool example of customers innovating behind…
- ⋆ Backstage: An inside look at how we use Basecamp
- ⋆ The Slicehost Story
- ⋆ Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GeekDesk
- ⋆ Every Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud in one place
- ⋆ Quote: Spinfree had a dirty little secret: It wasn…
- ⋆ How Intellum switched from making a plan for VCs to making a product for customers
- ⋆ Forget passion, focus on process
- ⋆ Link: SvN Flashback: Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs (Guy gets it right)
- ⋆ Quote: What’s more, delegating isn’t…
- ⋆ Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: SparkFun
- ⋆ Real time vs. slow time – and a defense of sane work hours
- ⋆ Exit interview: Jaiku's Jyri Engeström
- ⋆ Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Proud: The story of Z. Vex' oddball effects pedals
- ⋆ The problem with the tech world’s “swing for the fences” approach
- ⋆ Quote: Basecamp was done almost entirely without…
- ⋆ Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Coudal
- ⋆ Exit Interview: Ask Jeeves' acquisition of Bloglines
- ⋆ Exit Interview: Farhad Mohit of Shopzilla
- ⋆ How to get good at making money
- ⋆ [Podcast] Episode #25: Hiring
- ⋆ Tim Ferriss on tolerable mediocrity, false idols, diversifying your identity, and the advice he gives startups
- ⋆ Video: At TEDxMidwest, Jason explains why the office…
- ⋆ The story of Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, one of Steve Jobs' biggest heroes
- ⋆ Another round of lessons learned from our new team-based way of working
- ⋆ Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Admoda
- ⋆ Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000
- ⋆ The Big Think interview, take two
- ⋆ Link: Managing Conflict
- ⋆ Bob Lefsetz: "The whole music business infrastructure is about selling out"
- ⋆ You couldn't pay me to work for Ballmer
- ⋆ Step one is admitting you have a problem
- ⋆ PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT
- ⋆ The next generation bends over
- ⋆ The bar for success in our industry is too low
- ⋆ Forget the resume, kill on the cover letter
- ⋆ There's always time to launch your dream
- ⋆ Ask 37signals: 10 ways to "get ink"
- ⋆ Why Enterprise Software Sucks
- ⋆ You're not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn't matter)!
Design
- ⋆ The Typography and Layout behind the new Signal vs. Noise redesign
- ⋆ Backstage: Designing the new "Everything" feature in the all new Basecamp
- ⋆ Backstage: Designing the new Basecamp blank slates
- ⋆ Backstage: How we use Basecamp to collect, share, and discuss inspiration
- ⋆ Backstage: Using Basecamp to build the Basecamp calendar
- ⋆ Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures
- ⋆ Behind the scenes: Highrise marketing site A/B testing part 1
- ⋆ What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
- ⋆ Lessons learned from implementing Highrise's custom fields feature
- ⋆ Ten design lessons from Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture
- ⋆ Flashback: Every time you add something you take something away
- ⋆ Link: SvN Flashback: It just doesn’t matter
- ⋆ How nature and naiveté helped Paul MacCready build a human-powered airplane in only six months
- ⋆ The Emeco 1006 chair
- ⋆ How Makalu Interactive created the international iPhone hit RaceSplitter
- ⋆ Behind the scenes: 37signals.com Redesign
- ⋆ George Nakashima: "It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value"
- ⋆ Ryan's talk at Future of Web Apps 2010, London
- ⋆ A look at the design process of aviation innovator Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson
- ⋆ The first step is to start
- ⋆ Basecamp home page redesign
- ⋆ Design Decisions: Calling out to existing customers on signup
- ⋆ How do you turn inspiration into skill?
- ⋆ Hovers (and power users) still have a healthy future
- ⋆ "Designing with Forces" – How to apply Christopher Alexander in everyday work
- ⋆ Video: I gave a talk on “UI Fundamentals for…
- ⋆ A shorthand for designing UI flows
- ⋆ The different sketch styles of the designers at 37signals
- ⋆ Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page
- ⋆ Why we skip Photoshop
- ⋆ Microsoft System Center Ad
- ⋆ iPhone: Context over consistency
- ⋆ How Apple's small things influence their big things
- ⋆ The technology of OLPC's hundred dollar laptop
- ⋆ The 10 most popular newspaper typefaces
General
Programming
- ⋆ Using event capturing to improve Basecamp page load times
- ⋆ How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
- ⋆ Four tips for learning how to program
- ⋆ Link: SvN Flashback: Essential vs. Non-Essential
- ⋆ How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer
- ⋆ [Podcast] Episode #22: Programming roundtable (Part 3 of 3)
- ⋆ How do I learn to program?
- ⋆ [Podcast] Episode #21: Programming roundtable (Part 2 of 3)
- ⋆ [Podcast] Episode #20: Programming roundtable (Part 1 of 3)
- ⋆ Big Think interview with David
- ⋆ Device-scale user interface elements in iOS Mobile Safari
- ⋆ Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding
- ⋆ Ask 37signals: How do you document code?
Support
- ⋆ The end of 9-to-5: Faster support with Euro-hours and late shifts
- ⋆ Link: How To Turn Disaster Into Gold
- ⋆ Quote: [Sitting next to Craig Newmark while waiting…
- ⋆ Lessons from T-Mobile's support
- ⋆ On Writing: Managing disaster at Freshbooks, Dreamhost, Dancing Trees
- ⋆ And the winner for best support email ever is...(see image)
Sysadmin
- ⋆ Behind the Scenes: The Hardware that Powers Basecamp, Campfire and Highrise
- ⋆ Link: A new 37signals project: Pow
- ⋆ Nuts & Bolts: Potpourri
- ⋆ Nuts & Bolts: Storage
- ⋆ Nuts & Bolts: Database Servers
- ⋆ [Podcast] Episode #12: Being a Systems Administrator at 37signals
- ⋆ Nuts & Bolts: HAproxy
- ⋆ Behind the scenes at 37signals: Sysadmin and development
Writing
- ⋆ SvN Flashback: Eureka! We’re editors
- ⋆ On Writing: The 1972 Chouinard Catalog that changed a business – and climbing – forever
- ⋆ All the "wrong" things we did with REWORK
- ⋆ Tools for editing REWORK
- ⋆ Why is business writing so awful?
- ⋆ [On Writing] Saddleback Leather tells its story and promotes through education
- ⋆ Writing Decisions: Saving space without losing meaning
- ⋆ [On writing] Constraints, nightmares vs. dreams, seeking haters, etc.
- ⋆ [On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy
- ⋆ Why most copywriting on the web sucks
- ⋆ Four letter words
- ⋆ Excerpts from Stephen King's "On Writing"
- ⋆ [On Writing] Keeping it real
- ⋆ [On Writing] Describing a slice instead of the whole pie
