I’ve put out lots of job postings for Ruby on Rails developers in my day, and yet I’ve never used the 37 Signals Job Board because, well, how do I put this delicately? The 37 Signals team is renowned in our little corner of the world, and deservedly so. Their philosophies and products have changed [...]
Believe it or not, 12 Spokes has not always been the large team that it is today. (I know, shock). When we started, we were just a couple of really talented developers working at home, building hot software for a small cadre of clients. It was 2006, and we’d been drinking the 37 Signals “Less [...]
Backstory: One of our developers had his computer crash, and he needed a new one ASAP. We decided to send him my brawny Macbook Pro, because its power was sadly underused. I don’t do any heavy lifting—like coding or Photoshop—anymore; my job these days mainly consists of composing emails and managing HR. I didn’t need [...]
I get this question all the time, especially when I go home for the holidays. It’s a valid question, I suppose. When you work in an office, that’s your default way to know the other people on your team are working. [Ed. Note: it's sad that people think their physical presence in an office proves [...]
Don’t get me wrong. I love our remote team. I feel like we’ve put together an awesome group of the best talent we can find across the country. Everyone’s an awesome communicator, so getting the point across is just as easy when we’re 1,000 miles away as when we’re across the table from each other. [...]
It is an unfortunate reality that if you run a business, sometimes you’re going to have to print stuff out onto paper. We really hate doing that because: Printed items need to be stored in real-life files. Filing cabinets are friends of entropy—it takes a lot of work to maintain them. It’s so much easier [...]