How to Iterate on Your Work Style at Basecamp

At Basecamp, we work in six week cycles of work. We pick about one or two projects that are going to take the full six weeks and then maybe five to eight smaller projects that will take anywhere from a day to a couple weeks each. So this way you focus on the stuff that actually truly matters and you really get to understand the problem better. There's also the fact that six weeks keeps us honest in terms of the types of ambitions we're going to take on.