Explore Daniel R. Odio’s writing, videos, lessons, and shipped work about 37 signals.
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You think you're using Highrise effectively, but you're probably drowning in 'Pending' deals with no real funnel. This breaks down a category-hacking system and a Chrome extension that turns Highrise's weakest feature into something actually usable for tracking your pipeline.
You've probably set up Basecamp and then watched it become chaos because nobody uses it the same way. This shows you the exact organizational structure and naming conventions a real company enforces so everyone actually knows where to put things and how to find them again.
You picked a tool, rolled it out, and now your team is complaining it's not working—but you're not sure if it's the tool or how you're using it. This dissection walks through the discipline gap that kills adoption and how to diagnose whether you need better training or different software.
You're probably overbuilding and saying yes to too many features—this shows you the discipline of cutting scope before it buries you. Learn how a tiny team stays productive by doing less, hiring later, and making opinionated choices instead of drowning in preferences and requests.
You think you're using Highrise effectively, but you're probably drowning in 'Pending' deals with no real funnel. This breaks down a category-hacking system and a Chrome extension that turns Highrise's weakest feature into something actually usable for tracking your pipeline.
You've probably set up Basecamp and then watched it become chaos because nobody uses it the same way. This shows you the exact organizational structure and naming conventions a real company enforces so everyone actually knows where to put things and how to find them again.
You picked a tool, rolled it out, and now your team is complaining it's not working—but you're not sure if it's the tool or how you're using it. This dissection walks through the discipline gap that kills adoption and how to diagnose whether you need better training or different software.
You're probably overbuilding and saying yes to too many features—this shows you the discipline of cutting scope before it buries you. Learn how a tiny team stays productive by doing less, hiring later, and making opinionated choices instead of drowning in preferences and requests.