Jason Fried
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY); co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
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Their wordswhenever you have a free IRL event, you tend to get a lot of no-shows. Plenty of people sign up and RSVP, but ultimately far fewer show up.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe speed at which a product is developed doesn't inherently make the product better or worse. The number of commits doesn't make the product better or worse. The number of people or agents working on it doesn't make it better or worse.
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Confusing how something was made with what was made is confusing the kitchen for the meal
Their wordsMistaking making for the thing you've made is like confusing the kitchen for the meal or the blueprint for the building. They're connected, but they're not the same thing. One of them matters a whole lot more than the other.
- 4 months earlier
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Most people do not enjoy using computers and only tolerate them because they have no alternative.
Their wordsMost people don't like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all.
↗The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it.world.hey.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThey don't hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn't their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it's become.
↗The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it.world.hey.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Giving people access to tools for building software does not make most of them software builders.
Their wordsGiving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder.
↗The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it.world.hey.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsBig flat toggle buttons under satisfying tension. Clear affordances. You push them down, not in. One click catches, one doesn't. You can use them with bare hands, oven mitts, fingers coated in slippery whatever. Doesn't matter. Plenty of surface area. Outstanding design. It's all been downhill from there.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsIn some cases, design is what something looks like. In other cases, design is how something works. But the most interesting designs to me are when design changes your behavior. Even the smallest details can change how someone interacts with something.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsThe gravity of existing decisions in current systems requires so much energy to reach escape velocity that you tend to conform rather than explore. Essentially you're bent back to where you started, rather than arcing out towards a new horizon.
- 4 years earlier
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Their wordsSo that's the thing that's great about building something that you're going to use yourself, is that you have answers to questions that you might never actually be able to really truly get from somebody else.
- 10 years earlier
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Their wordsThings that look good at the end of the day often don’t look good the next morning.
↗Morning tells the truthsignalvnoise.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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The end of the day convinces you your work is good; the next morning tells you the truth.
Their wordsThe end of the day has a way of convincing you what you’ve done is good. The next morning has a way of telling the you truth.
↗Morning tells the truthsignalvnoise.com 2nd of 2 in this piece