Basecamp Founders Are Right – Its Ok to Focus on What You Do and Cut the Noise

Basecamp Founders Are Right – Its Ok to Focus on What You Do and Cut the Noise(perezbox.com)

24 points by perezbox 5 years ago | 5 comments

lacker 5 years ago |

To me the strange thing is that they released this publicly. Okay, you're switching how you do 360 reviews, you're shutting down your DEI team, most companies wouldn't blog about these internal reorgs, they would just do it. It's not like the publicity seems all that great for them.

FooBarBizBazz 5 years ago | |

It will have effects on hiring. Different people will self-select to apply.

g42gregory 5 years ago |

Wow, these are really good policies that are seemingly designed to get their focus back on the product, engineering and business of serving customers.

davidgerard 5 years ago |

Why did Basecamp management say "no politics at work"? Well, coincidentally, a full one-third of Basecamp employees wanted to join the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion council. DEI appears to be precisely the politics DHH and Jason don't want Basecamp to think about.

Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Rahsfan/status/1387042197321633792

EricE 5 years ago | |

And what is wrong with that? What the hell does DEI have to do with being competitive?

What you do brings value to a company. Not some immutable aspect of your being (race, color, sexual preference, etc.).

It's amazing to watch people who are supposedly anti-racist working feverishly to enact policies far more restrictive than Jim Crow laws ever were.

Anyone who tries to talk about anything other than merit is a charlatan. Hell Martin Luther King would be excoriated from Twitter for declaring that he dare dream that people be judged by they character and not their skin color.