Our levels of productivity, creativity, and inspiration have an intimate, hard-to-articulate connection to our environments. And we all have different predilections — quiet vs. noisy, calm vs. bustling, light vs. dark. Each quality creates a climate that pulls something different out of us.
Our surroundings shape how we work, yet we also have the power to choose and to mold them ourselves.
Government vs. free markets and attracting the ambitious class.
Patrick McKenzie dives into his experiences at Stripe over the past 4 years.
A tribute to a tradition at Spatial Networks.
An update on working as an all-remote team after 5 months of sheltering.
Thoughtful post from Figma CEO Dylan Field on their plan for going 'back to normal.'
Launching Fulcrum's Report Builder.
Commandos, infantry, or police for markets, why sleep deprivation kills, and how Marc Andreessen works.
How should the state respond to the coronacrisis?, mapping the future of work, and Stephen Wolfram's deep dive on his productivity systems.
Hosting a webinar to talk about Fulcrum for disaster relief.
Closing our $42.5m series A round for growth.
Wrapping up our second all hands of 2019.
In San Juan for the NetHope Global Summit.
Thoughts on data warehouse archives, the living, institutional knowledge you’ve invested in over years or decades of doing business, full of latent value.
A cool post on a study done by a research team in the City of Saskatoon, looking at the perceptions of safety in a downtown area using Fulcrum.
A tribute to a terrible day.
Marathon training with an expanding group of coworkers.
A post from the archives on how we ship product on the Fulcrum team.
Rhythmic breathing for impact reduction in running, drowned lands in Upstate New York, and SSO in Fulcrum
Thoughts on the importance of customer retention and net negative churn in the SaaS business.
The new ebook from the Basecamp team on product development.
Interesting post from Jason Fried on Basecamp working in 6 week 'cycles'.
GIS and Fulcrum training for the Pacific Islands.
Andy Grove's timeless thoughts on the meeting as a medium for managerial work.
A retrospective on my second product, allinspections.
The Discovering QGIS workshop from Kurt Menke of Bird's Eye View GIS.
Empty promises with data moats, the Chinese-US trade standoff, and all-remote company experiences.
We just launched a merch store for company gear.
Superhuman's methodology for measuring product-market fit, Stripe going remote, and Downlink for satellite imagery feeds.
A tribute to Gene Wolfe, Zoom's Eric Yuan, and a Q+A with Tony on SNI.
A summary of how Santa Barbara County used Fulcrum Community for evacuation ops.
Planning runs, Vannevar Bush on the future of thinking, and best practices for remote work.
Kicking off our Spring All Hands.
T cells for immunotherapy, engineering new proteins with Jupyter Notebooks, and Spatial Networks named as a top workplace.
Relaunching the Fulcrum website with an updated brand and logo.
A retrospective on the first product I worked on as (de facto) product manager: Geodexy, a predecessor to Fulcrum.
“Attending the GIS career fair at CUNY Hunter.”
“Our second All Hands meeting of the year, now with our staff of over 50 people together.”
Reconsidering the value of Slack and live chat communication tools.
We started building Fulcrum in 2011. 7 years in I look back at how we started and what's changed.
Designer Tim Campbell on working remotely for our company.
We've posted a map of Kabul, Afghanistan built from spatial networks GIS data.