Learning from Mistakes is Overrated

09/21/21 • 28 min

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"Fail early and often." You hear this all the time in the tech start-up world. Failure has long been held up as a badge of honor for new start-ups. This week Jason and David take on this idea and make a pitch for learning from your successes instead of your mistakes.

Show Notes

06:22 - Backpack
06:29 - Highrise
10:39 - Adobe Creative Cloud
12:27 - Campfire
12:31 - Slack
16:28 - HEY for Domains
18:16 - Work at Basecamp
20:33 - Hire good writers (Getting Real)
20:38 - Hire managers of one (Signal v. Noise)
23:09 - Microsoft Project
27:04 - Remote: Office Not Required

Show Notes

06:22 - Backpack
06:29 - Highrise
10:39 - Adobe Creative Cloud
12:27 - Campfire
12:31 - Slack
16:28 - HEY for Domains
18:16 - Work at Basecamp
20:33 - Hire good writers (Getting Real)
20:38 - Hire managers of one (Signal v. Noise)
23:09 - Microsoft Project
27:04 - Remote: Office Not Required

Previous Episode

Ignore the Real World

We continue our revisit of Rework with the essay, "Ignore the Real World." Topics include new ideas failing, risk avoidance, and Marvel movies.

Show Notes

09:13 - HEY
16:49 - Black Widow
19:54 - Ruby on Rails

Next Episode

Planning is Guessing (Season 2)

People put too much stock in making long-term plans, but let's call them what they really are: guesses. On this episode we discuss deadlines, business plans, world domination, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Show Notes

01:06 - Dungeons & Dragons
01:20 - Mind Flayer
02:00 - Six-week cycles (Shape Up)
05:54 - The meaning of a bet (Shape Up)
07:23 - Shape Up
08:32 - Setting the appetite (Shape Up)
09:57 - "Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
12:29 - Carlos Segura - Segura, Inc.
12:43 - S Corporations
15:24 - The deal Jeff Bezos got on Basecamp (Signal v. Noise)
16:51 - Blue Origin
19:04 - “The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals—not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them—we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.” - Jim Coudal quoting Dan Gilbert (Creative Mornings Chicago)
19:12 - Coudal Partners
19:12 - Field Notes
20:59 - Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
21:01 - Objectives and Key Results (OKR)

REWORK - Learning from Mistakes is Overrated

Transcript

Shaun: [00:00:00] You said you've been working out Monday through Wednesday?
Jason: [00:00:02] Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings. Yeah.
Shaun: [00:00:04] Uh-huh.
Jason: [00:00:04] Do you want me to flex and prove it?
[00:00:07] Broken By Design by Clipart plays.
Shaun: [00:00:09] Welcome to Rework, a podcast by Basecamp about the better way to work and run your business. I'm your host, Shaun Hildner. This week we're discussing the essay in Rework, the book titled, “Learning Fro