Why the numbered posts? In this chapter Jason bashes the workaholics. The following summarizes Jason’s take on the workaholics: “Workaholics miss the point, too. They try to fix the problems by throwing sheer hours at them.” It can’t be more true. First of all we must know that after a certain amount of hours our…

In economics there is a principle of continuous growth, a sort of Darwinism: grow or die. Its accepted that if a company does not grow, it will not be able to sustain itself in a long term. To survive – you must grow. It then must be this predisposition that leads us into being impressed…

Jason says: “unless you’re a fortune teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy” and adds that “when you turn guesses into plans, you enter a danger zone”. So should we call “planning” “guessing”? Sure. At the least it will keep us mindful about impermanence of a plan, while still allowing us to use it and…

This is referring to the idea of startup community embracing failure too much: “Fail early and fail often”. According to the author, research shows that successful entrepreneurs are much more likely to succeed the next time around, so you shouldn’t embrace the failure.  You should not seek failure as a road to success, but at…

This refers to the times when you have an idea, but people tell you “it will not work in the real world’. Such world may be “real” for them, but you don’t have to be in it. Just throw that world out through your window. Most  great ideas start from people questioning the status quo. 

I just finished reading REWORK by Jason Fried of 37signals and I found the content and ideas in the book so good that I want to share them with with you, as well as keep a record for myself. I am probably not the only one who needs to constantly be reminded about these great ideas.…