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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
2.0
Some podcast appearance of Jason Fried triggered me do dive in this book. It’s the second book I’ve read by Jason Fried, and if I recall correctly I wasn’t too enthusiastic about ‘Re-work’ either. Fried is a good talker, and that’s exactly what happens in this book, a lot of talking. And that’s fine for a talk, but for a book I want to hear some background material, some motivations, some elaborations on the why behind the statements. It’s not the content of the books I disagree with, - except for the ‘Not pitching ideas in person to people’ which sounds crazy to me.
Therefor, unfortunately it feels as a big boast of ‘look how cool we are at Basecamp’, like I am reading their company Tinder-page. Luckily the annoyance only started kicking in in the last half of the book.
This quote from the books illustrates this best: “Three people is the best number for a team. Four needs a manager, five is two too much and 6 is….”
Therefor, unfortunately it feels as a big boast of ‘look how cool we are at Basecamp’, like I am reading their company Tinder-page. Luckily the annoyance only started kicking in in the last half of the book.
This quote from the books illustrates this best: “Three people is the best number for a team. Four needs a manager, five is two too much and 6 is….”