<p>When your client is hundreds of miles away, but your bed only three feet, it helps to understand motivation.</p><p>The first thing to understand about motivation is that it’s not something you do to someone. That’s called coercion. With enough …</p>
<p>As mentioned in my previous post, everyone at Lincoln Loop sets their own salary. It’s another radical divergance from the business norm that we borrowed from the book of Ricardo Semler.</p><p>Every six months, I meet with each of our …</p>
<p>Maverick</p><p>by</p><p>Ricardo Semler</p><p>was an eye-opening read for me a while back. It is a detailed account of his (highly profitable) company which is a radical departure from the traditional workplace.</p><p>Rework</p><p>(published over 20 years later) reads like …</p>
<p>For our latest product,</p><p>Ginger</p><p>, we wanted to marry the real-time functionality we needed with the traditional Django stack we know and love. After some false starts and falling on our faces in the beginning, we ended with a …</p>
<p>Development is a creative endeavor. Often developers are creating something where there was once nothing. For most us, the thought of being productive for 8 consecutive hours 5 days a week is laughable. 2-3 hours on a single problem is …</p>
<p>Our team of 10 is distributed across 8 countries and 3 continents. We have no central office. When we first started, a couple years might go by without ever meeting in person, now we meet in person for at least …</p>
<p>It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything here about Lincoln Loop, so it’s time for a quick update.</p><p>In short, we’ve been hard at work. In addition to having</p><p>multiple</p><p>speakers</p><p>at DjangoCon, and starting work on</p><p>an internal …</p>
<p>I recently came across</p><p>this article from EightShapes</p><p>detailing how they are sharing sketches in a remote environment. Lincoln Loop is entirely remote and we’ve run into the same problem, but I’ll admit we haven’t been as MacGyver about solving …</p>
<p>I’m pleased to announce that</p><p>Gondola for Real Estate</p><p>, our GeoDjango-backed real estate</p><p>CMS</p><p>is publicly accepting new customers. A couple weeks ago, we quietly re-launched</p><p>gondolacms.com</p><p>with some details about the platform and what it has to offer, …</p>
<p>Today, we are launching a new offering at Lincoln Loop, development services paid by the sprint. Previously, our typical engagements involved a (sometimes lengthy) discovery, estimation, and bidding process. Lately, however, people have been asking us to jump in with …</p>
