We send a lot of mail for Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, and Campfire (and some for Sortfolio, the Jobs Board, Writeboard, and Tadalist). One of the most frequently asked questions we get is about how …

BUILDING CREDIBILITY has been on my mind for a long time. With several hours of time to write as I travel, it seemed a good time to capture and share my thoughts after some reflection.One of the…

Unless someone does, things start to fray around the edges.

Often it’s the CEO or the manager who sets a standard of caring about the details. Even better is a culture where everyone cares, and…

Years ago, my bosses and I needed to finalize the pricing for a new line of software I was launching. In the room we had MBAs from Harvard (2), Stanford, Tuck and, I think, Wharton. We had three…

I’ve always been fascinated by airplane crashes. Unlike car accidents, which are often blamed on driver (and thus human) error, airplane crashes are considered engineering failures, so the…

Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels
Chip Conley is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which he began at age 26 and built to more than 30 properties in California alone. In 2010, Joie…

Fascinating well-researched investigative report by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher for the New York Times, on the rise of China as a manufacturing power and the corresponding effect on middle…

Aaron Ricadela, reporting for Bloomberg:

Personal-computer makers are counting on ultrabooks to challenge
the MacBook Air, Apple’s best-selling laptop, which is less than
an inch thick. Still,…

This guest post from Felix is part of the “reader stories” feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — or…

Five years ago today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone for the first time, completely changing the mobile industry. (If you haven’t watched his keynote lately, you should. It is his best…

A Reddit Gem
A reader recently sent me a link to this fascinating Reddit thread. It’s titled:”I’m not as smart as I thought I was,” and it features a high school senior worried that his intellectual…

There’s a huge difference between looking productive and being productive. It’s one I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self.
About seven years ago, I had big ambitions. I was going to …

James Galbraith, the lab director at Macworld, did an ultra-nerdy analysis of read/write speeds for different external drives when daisy chained via Thunderbolt in various patterns and with or…

Not so much a desk, more a room – but still, it’s so warm and clean that I thought it needed posting. By Pod Space.

Five years ago, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, he said the software was 5 years ahead of what was on any other phone:

Now, software on mobile phones is like baby software. It’s not so…

An old Marine Pilot sat down at the Starbucks, still wearing his old USMC flight suit and leather jacket and ordered a cup of coffee. As he sat sipping his coffee, a young woman sat down next…

The Perfectionism of Steve Jobs
While designing the original Macintosh, Steve Jobs became frustrated with the title bars. As Malcolm Gladwell summarizes in a recent essay on industrial innovation:…

I am a big believer in VC pitches that the bio slide should come up front. Actually, I think the advice in this post applies to any sales meeting also.

The short answer is that by knowing the key…

The internet is an engine of connection. It has been from the start (email, chat, forums, blogs, social media…)

One reason that so many of the most popular sites online are those that permit…

It’s that time of year, when employers/clients are squeezing every last ounce of creativity from us, deadlines seem to get shorter and our days get longer. We’re probably not at our best to be…

Hey everyone,
We’re really excited to announce the launch of the Dropbox API for mobile and web apps! Even if you have no clue what the Dropbox API does, chances are you’ve already used it — it’s the …

It’s tempting to believe that any website can become a perpetual motion machine of profit. But before you start one, invest in one or go to work for one, a few things to ask:

What’s the revenue…

The image above is of Don Wardlaw, a real college student who was featured in a 1954 issue of True Magazine for Men for an article entitled, “Look What Happens When You Dress as Smart as You Are”…

The AP, quoting from an advance copy of Walter Isaacson’s imminent Jobs biography:

“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend
every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the…

Es gibt viele verschiedene Wege, wie man sich Freunde machen kann.
Einer davon ist über Ideologie, Ausgrenzung, Hass und Hetze. Man nehme irgendeinen Sündenbock, Erkläre ihn zum Teufel und der Wurzel …

“I don’t like that guy,” she said.

“Why not,” I wondered…

It turns out that she had done some business with him years ago and it hadn’t gone well. When pressed, though, she couldn’t actually…