November 2009
6 posts
Does working from home make you more productive? ... →
It doesn’t look like much, but 5 people logged an extra 75 hours in a month, with the vast majority of those extra hours being productive development or design hours.
“An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win...”
– Paul Graham
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals →
I don’t believe in the 40-hour workweek, so we cut all that BS about being somewhere for a certain number of hours. I have no idea how many hours my employees work — I just know they get the work done.
We rarely have meetings. I hate them. They’re a huge waste of time, and they’re costly. Creative people need unstructured time to get in the zone. You can’t do that...
How do you respond to truth?
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
“good software design is the accretion of a thousand acts of insightful...”
– Kent Beck