Confessions of a Reforming Workaholic
More wisdom from the good people over at 37 Signals.
Sometimes the real hero is already home, because he/she figured out a quicker way to get to “done.”
A little bit of context: 37 Signals make the excellent products Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire and Highrise, all of which perfectly express their mantra of “less is more”. That is, most software doesn’t need more features, it needs fewer things to distract you from the job at hand.
As I’ve written before, I’m a big fan. What I really like about David, Jason and the rest of the crew, though, is that they seem from the outside to be impervious to the panic-stricken approach to business that dominates much of the tech industry. That is, they utterly reject the notion that things being done yesterday is more important than the nature of the things being done.
At first glance it reads as though it applies only to software-based businesses, but there are huge lessons for businesses and indeed people of all kinds to be learned from their book, Getting Real. Definitely on my must read list.
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