Basecamp Is Failing Its Own Future

The company’s ban on social discussions forgets that workers are people

Emily Pothast
Marker
Published in
4 min readApr 27, 2021

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For the past several years, Chicago-based company Basecamp has positioned itself as a moral and strategic leader in the tech world. This posture has come, in no small part, from the tireless workplace culture evangelism of cofounders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson—better known…

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Emily Pothast
Marker

Artist and historian. PhD student researching religion, material culture, media, and politics. emilypothast.com