Brian Bailey

Here's my deeply considered review after my first week on Omarchy: Hot damn!

We’ve been working in new product mode for over a year.

I can’t stop watching Taskmaster.

We just launched Fizzy!

I live in an apartment building called Skinner.

Before joining 37signals, I led product at a startup.

I like to start each cycle with a handful of things to shape.

A new edition of Shape Up is on the way!

I’ve fallen deeply for jazz over the past few years.

We just got back from a lovely week in Montréal for our company meet-up.

Shape Up debuted 5 years ago on July 10, 2019.

HEY Calendar has a feature called Time Tracking.

When you walk to your favorite coffee shop, you pass a woodworking shop that makes custom furniture.

Announcements tell the ongoing story of a product.

If you're an author, the moment comes when you hand off the final draft and the book is published.

Product roles are frequently solo roles.

You start a new project.

The Betting Table is how product priorities are chosen in Shape Up.

You can’t have margin without constraints.

Do you optimize for consistency or flexibility?

When I joined 37signals last year, I had been using Shape Up for four years, but I was eager to learn how shaping here differed from my own experience.

Product strategy is continually asking, What is the pizza, and what are the toppings?

From the start of my career, I've known the products I've worked on inside and out.

One twist of remote work is that when you get a new job, you don't get a new office.