The only Team Edward that really matters. (I met him once, by the way. And stammered out something stupid like the idiot fanboy I am. Good times!)
As a client, your job isn’t to be innovative. Your job is to foster innovation. Big difference.—Seth Godin
Does working from home make you more productive? Yes (with data)!
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.
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 by doing better work.—Paul Graham
Whatever clock
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 in 20 minutes.
If anyone ever writes us with a complaint, our stance is it’s our fault — for not being clear enough or not making something work the way it should.
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 in 20 minutes.
If anyone ever writes us with a complaint, our stance is it’s our fault — for not being clear enough or not making something work the way it should.
Excellent and insightful article, full of all sorts of great quotes and concepts like the above. It reminds me that worthwhile disciplines provide a corresponding freedom, and no true freedom comes without challenges. For all their laid-back culture, I think the 37Signals folks are some of the most disciplined software developers out there.
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 compassion—Kent Beck
Brewing a Better Rating System
The Steepster blog offers some insight into their fantastic take on a 100-point rating system.
Great design can’t be predicted. The key to reaching it is to start simple, release early, and iterate frequently.