Brian Bailey @bb Twitter profile

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 years

One consolation in this abysmal Arsenal season is the fantastic writing by @amylawrence71 “How bad does it have to get? Another frenzied tactical disasterclass epitomised how difficult it is to get to grips with whatever it is Emery is trying to achieve.”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

7 months

Basecamp's home screen keeps getting better. Recently, we released Stacks so you can organize projects into piles. Today, we added colors and logos. Maybe you work on a few different products or your company has a bunch of clients. Make your Basecamp shine!

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

I’m holding out hope that Yo is a sophisticated stealth marketing campaign for the return of Yo! MTV Raps.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Neighborhood kids want to learn about business, so I’m opening a competing lemonade stand with ads and giving it away for free.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

Write like you have to pay for the time it takes the reader to read it.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 months

Announcing is part of shipping great work, and that work deserves a great announcement. They're easy to tune out, though. Here are a few ways to make them worth reading. Anatomy of an Announcement

Anatomy of an Announcement

Announcements tell the ongoing story of a product. They frame new features, suggest different ways of using the product, and pull in curious people who haven't signed up yet. They're also easy to...

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

I was in a workshop with @bmoesta and he shared this slide about the four forces. He said once you learn about them, you’ll see them everywhere and in every decision. He was right - I think about them constantly, from personal decisions to product behaviors to elections.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

This terrific profile of @internetalena captures the magic of Dickinson and how it came to be. It's one of the best shows going, but I really, really want to see the one about Wittgenstein.

Alena Smith’s Subversive “Dickinson”

The show seemed like a modern riff on a beloved poet. After two seasons, it looks more like a radical reading of the poems themselves.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

13 years

One of my favorite writers, Kathy Sierra, wrote a fantastic piece for @gapingvoid . As @jw said, it's a wake up call: http://bit.ly/mEUcOu

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 years

Who could the Cubs get if they trade Contreras? Great research and analysis.

Issue 10: The Cubs May Need to Make a Big Trade

And it could involve Willson Contreras

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

I’d be a poor freelancer because at some point the client would say, “How about we pay you in Nutella & Go?” and I’d say, “Awesome!”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

Imagine walking up to coffee shop and a sign on the door says “Would you like to receive our newsletter?” You can’t enter until you decide.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

New job, same desk Thoughts on switching from one remote job to another.

New job, same desk

One twist of remote work is that when you get a new job, you don't get a new office. I started at 37signals last month. We make Basecamp and HEY (and HEY World!) The company is fully distributed,...

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Brian Bailey

@bb

8 years

@mikeallen Don’t you wish we could watch Safire analyze “basket of deplorables” with Russert tomorrow?

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

There’s a good chance the company you admire is debating whether to change or drop the feature, marketing campaign, or pricing model you’re considering copying. Every product and business is a unique set of strengths, weaknesses, skills, knowledge, history, and customers.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

New job, day two. I’m excited to share that I’ve joined @37signals as Head of Product Strategy–we make @basecamp and @heyhey . Can’t wait to build great things with this talented crew.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 months

Writebook is here: Publish books online with ease. Could be a graphic novel, your short stories, blog posts around a theme, travel journal, internal manuals and runbooks, or anything else. Install and host yourself with a single command. 100% free.

Writebook

Instantly publish your own books on the web for free, no publisher required.

once.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

Wherefore Art My Art Bot A celebration of the art bots, one of my favorite things on Twitter. Thanks to @andreitr for making them possible.

Wherefore Art My Art Bot

Art bots have transformed my relationship with art. My curiosity about art on Twitter started when a friend shared the Canadian Paintings account. Finding beautiful art in my feed, most of which I...

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

No, definitely fill your homepage with tech press logos. They so rarely write about new apps and startups.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

14 years

This is incredible: http://www.googleartproject.com

Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

artsandculture.google.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Brilliant, restless, creative people working day and night to solve problems and improve lives. This is why we can have nice things.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

7 months

Heartbeats are one of my favorite things at @37signals . I love the cadence of pausing every 6 weeks to look back and celebrate. Since they're shared, you can stay in the loop about other teams with a single post. Here's the product heartbeat, just published this morning.

Jason Fried

@jasonfried

7 months

Let's look at some real stuff. Every 6 weeks team leads (or department heads) at 37signals post Heartbeats summarizing their team's prior 6 weeks of work. These are all posted to a Basecamp project called "What Works 2024" (we create a new one every year to hold just that

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Brian Bailey

@bb

1 year

I've been catching up on @rebeccamakkai 's terrific newsletter and one edition includes tips for authors about how to deal with 1-star reviews. The gem is the attached, her justifiably favorite review of all time.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 years

This is a terrific summary. The best I’ve seen.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Make a list of competitors and don’t think about them for a year. Then, be amazed at how many of the links no longer work.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

37signals is hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to deliver fast and reliable applications (Basecamp & HEY) to our customers. We're hiring 2-3 new teammates and looking for candidates with different levels of experience. Details here:

37signals

37signals is best known for making Basecamp and HEY, writing business and software books (Getting Real, REWORK, REMOTE, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and Shape Up), and inventing the Ruby on...

apply.workable.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Really smart ideas from @garrettdimon on how to learn from your cancellation page. http://t.co/4YVJcLvOP4

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Who will remember this strange little world and the friendships we built here? http://t.co/8BjK0cLKqT

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Brian Bailey

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4 years

Effectively Wild is my favorite podcast (also my ideal in structure, production, and spirit). This episode is a true gem: 5 writers from 30’s to 98(!) discussing 3 baseball books and what we love about going to games. If you miss baseball, enjoy this:

Effectively Wild Episode 1536: Three Days at the Ballpark

Facing the prospect of a season without fans in the stands, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley console themselves and fight baseball withdrawal by revisiting classic accounts of going to games.

blogs.fangraphs.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

The best way I can describe why I love @omnioutliner is it feels like someone is helping me be better at what I do.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

13 years

My picks for the five most interesting web apps for the new year: @votizen , @cowbird , @codecademy , @findings and @sprintly .

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Some thoughts on @GetEditorially closing shop, including an appearance by the Velvet Underground.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

7 months

In 2005, I emailed Jason about 37express. You could hire them to redesign 1 webpage in 1 week. I was too late. They were focusing on this new thing called Basecamp. I used it at every job over the next 15 years, and now, I'm fortunate to work on the product itself. Congrats!

Jason Fried

@jasonfried

7 months

20 years ago today I wrote a blog post () that changed my life. I'd never really launched a product before, so posting to our blog was only way I knew how to do it. And social media hadn't even been invented yet, so where else was I supposed to put it? In

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

A few questions I've been asking myself about the web: http://t.co/zdl2794hZQ

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

My new favorite Mac setting is Dock > Minimize windows into application icon,

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

I always love this time of year, when the weather turns cold and Mike Bloomberg thinks about running for president.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

7 years

Thanks @jw for the beautiful calendar and emoji stickers! A fine addition to the @pingboard office. Looks like there’s still a few left:

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

2005: "What you can learn from 37signals" 2010: "What you can learn from GitHub" 2015: "What you can learn from Slack"

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

An idea for @twitter - take over the @404 account and each day at 4:04, tweet a link to a page with information about a missing person.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

Product Announcement Bingo http://t.co/tCuqOu4B0S

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Here’s an idea: More NASA, less NSA.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

If you’re in product and passionate about blockchain, web3, NFTs, and DAOs @UnlockProtocol is looking for their first PM. It’s a small, talented team that’s passionate about the open web. Plus, you get to work with @julien51 .

Product Manager | Notion

About the job

unlockprotocol.notion.site

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Brian Bailey

@bb

12 years

When writing content for a scrolling, single-page experience, I imagine it like a song: verse > chorus > verse > chorus > bridge > chorus.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

I'm excited to announce that I will soon be moving from my desk to the kitchen. It's been a great run!

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

Standing in a long line to vote in Austin. A car pulls up and the driver tries to judge the wait by asking the crowd, “How long have y’all been waiting to get to this point?” Person next to me shouts “Four years!”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

Starting a business so you can work with your favorite people is a poor business strategy, but it’s also how a lot of great bands began.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

3 years

Meet Our Weirdos is a project by the great people at @andyet showcasing folks who take a people-first approach to business. They asked me to take part and it was a lot of fun. Learn more about what we geek out about and how that shows up in our work.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

13 years

So much of the talent in this industry is being used to create new takes on photo, check in, rating, and deal apps. Let's dream bigger.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

Mesmerized by the genius of @MsLaurynHill . What an incredible performance. Thank you @acltv .

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

I’m so happy The Believer will continue and is back home at @mcsweeneys . One of the most unique publications I’ve read, and a fantastic experience in print. I actually ran an ad for @uncommon in its classifieds once–it seemed like the perfect place.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

Celebrating one year with the @pingboard crew.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

12 years

"They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you." — Banksy http://t.co/Gv4qWs6o

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

“Think about how you can reduce the activation energy of things that you know you enjoy but sometimes struggle to start.” Whether you’re energized, tired, or exhausted should inform how you recharge. Helpful insight from @catehstn

The Battery

I keep coming back to what it means to recharge. The metaphor that has been working most for me lately is the idea of a battery. In the green, I have plenty of charge. Everything is possible. In th…

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

Anna Wiener’s "Uncanny Valley" is a fantastic, honest, conflicted look at Silicon Valley and this era of tech. Highly recommended. She is remarkably observant “…so many anemic new buildings with narrow balconies” and the writing is pitch perfect.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 years

I happily support the Effectively Wild podcast each month and this amazing recreation of a 1916 baseball game is just the latest reason. Thanks @megrowler @SamMillerBB

Effectively Wild Episode 1453: Time Is on Our Side

Sam Miller and Meg Rowley revisit a fast-moving 1916 afternoon tilt between the Asheville Tourists and the Winston-Salem Twins with some historic significance, and engage in an Effectively Wild…

blogs.fangraphs.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

3 years

Taos sunset

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Brian Bailey

@bb

6 years

At @lifechurch celebrating @loribailey ’s 10th anniversary. Amazed at what she and her fantastic team do every day with so much heart.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

12 years

Startups love laughing about Color, but many share the same fundamental problems, they just raised less money.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

I love Austin so much. Everywhere you turn, there’s another awesome person or intriguing place.

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@bb

5 years

“Part of the problem of social media is that there is no equivalent to the scientific glassblowers’ sign, or the woodworker’s open door. On the internet, if you stop speaking: you disappear. And, by corollary: on the internet, you only notice the people who are speaking nonstop.”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

If you hear awkward crying at the @drafthouse today it’s the people who decided to see Boyhood two weeks before taking their son to college.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

2 years

“I’ve taken three significant steps into the unknown in my life. The latest was a month ago, when I decided to leave my job.” Another Leap:

Another Leap

I’ve taken three significant steps into the unknown in my life. The latest was a month ago, when I decided to leave my job. The first came a year after my wife and I got married. Living in Chicago...

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

We did it. God bless @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris . 🇺🇸

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Brian Bailey

@bb

12 years

In my mind, Wes Anderson and Sufjan Stevens live in the same neighborhood and talk to each other with walkie talkies on rainy days.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

I started collecting examples of quality web and app copy: http://t.co/Zn7ZYH9oUQ If such things catch your eye, I’ll gladly add you.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

7 months

The first ONCE app is here and it's a beautiful thing. Why pay hundreds or thousands month after month for something as simple as chatting with people? Campfire is just $299, once.

Jason Fried

@jasonfried

7 months

And we are LIVE! It's here! Your own group chat system, installed on your own server, for $299, once. And you get the code. Installs in just a couple minutes with a single line in the terminal. Done. Have at it!

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Brian Bailey

@bb

13 years

Likes, followers, retweets, hearts, favorites, +1, friends, views. We're the Validation Generation.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

7 years

Grateful to contribute an essay to the new issue of @OffscreenMag . I love the heart of the project as much as its flawless expression.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

Exactly 5 days later, we have water again! So thankful. It will be a long time before I take for granted easy access to water. Grateful to everyone who helped, checked in, and offered to lend a hand.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Going through my son’s t-shirts, the Ghosts of Startups Past.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

I’m just amazed that sites still think that before I know a single thing about them, I’d like to sign up for a newsletter.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

1 year

Here's a live design review for an upcoming @basecamp feature called Stacks. Soon, you'll be able to create little piles of projects on your home screen to organize your work. This was a fun project to shape. These calls are how we put a bow on it — gut check, refine, and ship.

Jason Fried

@jasonfried

1 year

In this live design review with Jason (product), Brian (product manager), and Dorin (designer), we discuss a new Basecamp feature in development that allows people to organize their projects into stacks. This design includes a round of simplification in response to a more

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

What a day! Congratulations @bennett ! http://t.co/bWq0YrQGGm

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

My favorite writing about product management these days is from @ellenchisa . Start here, then follow the links: http://t.co/1dXB4OSUCz

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 years

So good. “The life where everything is measured is not really a full life: we need room for the un-measured, the not-obsessed-about, the casual, the fun-for-fun’s sake.”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

8 months

The HEY Calendar is here! It's been great fun working on this over the last year. We rethought the calendar and filled it with novel features that make managing your time a delight. Countdowns, time tracking, habits, sometime this week, photos and more.

Make your day

The all-new HEY Calendar puts time on your side.

www.hey.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 years

From The Economist: “One in five Americans calls Texas or California home. By 2050 one in four will.”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

The block plan is a clever way to run a school, but maybe it would be a great way to run a business. http://t.co/ZhGhGalvKD

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Brian Bailey

@bb

12 years

Video and transcript of Kathy Sierra’s incredible talk, “Building the Minimum Badass User”. Don’t miss it. http://t.co/AutFHEEg

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Brian Bailey

@bb

18 years

enjoying the fabulous, redesigned Wall Street Journal and listening to a Grateful Dead Halloween show

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

If I had laser hair, I would be reluctant to have it removed.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

If you're building a web app, @garrettdimon has collected a bunch of lessons and tools to make your life easy: http://t.co/TL2fdhQQiL

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Brian Bailey

@bb

12 years

I feel like there should be some extrovert exercises I could do before SXSW starts.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

“I can’t find Odwalla anywhere lately.” “Stupid Foursquare.”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

6 years

I just love Things by @culturedcode so, so much. I use it every single day and have for 11(!) years and somehow it still puts a smile on my face regularly.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

My plan for selling @bb to Blackberry to fund my son's college education is looking less and less shrewd.

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@bb

1 year

"Forcing every project to do things the same way and jump through the same hoops leads to process theater—people going through the motions and doing things that aren't the right fit for the situation." On mixing processes with trust and flexibility.

Often, not always

Do you optimize for consistency or flexibility? Many of us are drawn to patterns and processes. When something goes well, we try to figure out how to repeat the success. “That project went great....

world.hey.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

12 years

Recommended writing process: 1) Write entire piece 2) Delete first two paragraphs 3) Move the last paragraph to the top.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

13 years

In a fascinating experiment, @jonathanstark has made his Starbucks card available to anyone: http://jonathanstark.com/card (via @brynn )

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Welcome, Mr. President. http://t.co/Sj9r4636pL

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

Monsters University may be the most mainstream encapsulation of the case against higher education yet.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

3 years

Violet unsure why I would take pictures of anything but her.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

I just realized that the magic of receiving SMS messages on your Mac is that you don’t have to go get your phone for 2-factor auth texts.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

10 years

Big news! The first profile of @uncommon : http://t.co/nNb9cZeEYH Greatly enjoyed talking to Fast Company and @jmrivera02 .

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Brian Bailey

@bb

4 years

The Republican Party has spent four cowardly years abandoning principle, embracing conspiracies, and enabling a tyrant. It’s led to a president who won’t concede and supporters storming the Capitol. May they carry the responsibility for what they’ve unleashed with them forever.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

My new dream is to reach the point when I can post @uncommon job descriptions: “Must work well in a slow-paced, stable environment.”

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Brian Bailey

@bb

9 years

My definition of an introvert is someone who subconsciously times their drinks for the pauses in a conversation.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

1 month

Shape Up turns 5! The book had a significant impact on how I think about product strategy, shaping, building, and shipping. If you’ve adopted Shape Up, I’d love to hear what’s working and what’s been a struggle? How have you made it your own? More here:

5 Years of Shape Up

Shape Up debuted 5 years ago on July 10, 2019. I remember it because I read the book from cover to virtual cover the day it came out. I was leading product at a small startup. We were using a version...

world.hey.com

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Brian Bailey

@bb

5 years

I am waaaay behind on my Gowalla trips.

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Brian Bailey

@bb

11 years

A short note about what I’m up to next: http://t.co/Sg4IDa24UH

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