Desktop life

What's new with the Transistor team?

• Justin has a Halloween candy hangover.
• Desktops vs laptops for dev work.
• Transitioning from your personal equipment and software to stuff the business pays for.
• Where are we in our Shape-Up cycles?
• Our new marketing website is suffering because it's "un-shaped work."
• The benefits of working with a partner.
• "I'm realizing how single-threaded human beings are."
• What does Jon think of Tailwind CSS?
• At what stage of a customer's business lifecycle should you get them as a customer?
• How many customers did we get because Basecamp switched to us?
• "Make software that will be worth using for ten years."
• New features - how should we communicate those to customers?

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Show notes:

• Zoom H4N
• Leaked images from the 16" Macbook Pro
• New Transistor marketing site (unreleased)
• Current Transistor marketing site
• Why you need a co-founder
• Multiple computing threads
• Bootstrapped Web: product brain vs marketing brain
• Tailwind CSS
• Basecamp switched to us (episode)
• Rework podcast: some marketing things they're going to try
• Feature announcement newsletter
• How WebSub for podcasts works

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