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We Need to Talk
Society, Politics, Work and the Changes at Basecamp
I run a small creative agency in San Francisco. We went fully remote as of the first lockdown order in March of 2020. The first “policy” we implemented was a 30 minute all-agency video call every day at 10am. The intent was to discuss our current projects, talk about who was working on what, and make sure everyone had what they needed for the workday.
(The second policy was to eliminate Asana and Slack and move to Basecamp).
What this call very quickly became is an hour-long conversation filled with wide-ranging topics from mountain bikes to TV (remember Tiger King?) to skateboarding to fishing… as well as politics and current topics of the day.
We were in the final stages of the Trump administration and in the middle of a global pandemic. There was plenty to discuss.
Looking back, I can’t imagine going through last year without those calls.
It’s been over a year now, and we still do this. Every single day. I look forward to it. I believe we all look forward to it. Yes, we do get some work done- usually in the last 15 minutes of the call. Mostly we talk about our interests (us mountain bikers often dominate the conversation..we’re working on that) but when there’s a big political or societal issue, we…
