A short rollout — How one team uses the archive
Friday afternoons, the product team at Linear reads together.
What follows is one team's experience, told as a brief anecdote. Names of the team lead are with the editors and can be shared on request after a demo.
Linear's product team — twenty-eight people across product management, design, and engineering — licensed ResourceADay as a Department in early 2023. Their lead had a simple problem: the team was reading the same five Substacks in rotation, and the in-group Slack channel where they posted links had gone quiet. She wanted a single, reliable input — something read by everyone, not algorithmically sorted for each individual.
The rollout took an afternoon. The team added the daily edition to a shared internal mailing list, then added a single Slack integration that posts each day's link into a #reading channel at 6:15am ET. No badges, no completion tracking, no manager reports.
Two rituals emerged, both unplanned. New hires are now onboarded with a reading list of twenty past editions chosen by their manager from the archive — searchable by topic ("how we ship," "design critique," "engineering org design") — and asked to write a one-paragraph reaction to one of them in their first week. And on Friday afternoons, the team lead posts a "what stuck this week" thread to the same Slack channel, with two or three sentences from anyone who wants to weigh in.
"It is the lowest-cost team-learning program I have ever run," the lead wrote to us in a recent note. "It does not ask anything of anyone. It just shows up."