David Heinemeier Hansson Concepts

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · 1 Oct 2018 · 117pp · 30,538 words

Dedication From Jason Fried: To my family, to opportunity, and to luck—I’m fortunate to have you. Love and thanks. From David Heinemeier Hansson: To Jamie, Colt, and Dash for the love that gives patience and perspective to seek calm at work. Contents Cover Title Page Dedication First It’

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every email, and we’ll do our best to respond. Find us on Twitter On Twitter we’re at @jasonfried for Jason Fried, @dhh for David Heinemeier Hansson, and @basecamp for the company. Check out Basecamp, the product Used by over 100,000 companies worldwide, Basecamp is the calmer way to organize work

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are simple until you make them complicated. And when it comes to life, we’re all just trying to figure it out as we go. DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON is the cofounder of Basecamp and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of REWORK and REMOTE. He’s also the creator of the software toolkit

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great authors, exclusive offers, and more at hc.com. Copyright IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE CRAZY AT WORK. Copyright © 2018 by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to

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Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Fried, Jason, author. | Hansson, David Heinemeier, author. Title: It doesn’t have to be crazy at work / Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Description: First edition. | New York : HarperBusiness [2018] | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2018028691 | ISBN 9780062874788 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Organizational behavior. | Organizational effectiveness. | Management. Classification: LCC

Remote: Office Not Required

by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · 29 Oct 2013 · 98pp · 30,109 words

Heinemeier Hansson, Working remotely has allowed the whole family to spend more time together in more places. Thank you both for your love and inspiration. —DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON For all those sitting in traffic right now. —JASON FRIED Copyright © 2013 by 37signals, LLC All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Crown

Getting Real

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman and 37 Signals · 1 Jan 2006 · 132pp · 31,976 words

fallen into the mindset of a publisher. "It isn't ready yet," I'd say. But pressure from the community and some egging on from David Heinemeier Hansson changed my mind. We released the book in pdf form about 2 months before it was complete. The results were spectacular. Not only did we

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston · 14 Aug 2008 · 468pp · 233,091 words

KAHLE WAIS, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 CHAPTER 21 CHARLES GESCHKE Adobe Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 CHAPTER 22 ANN WINBLAD Open Systems, Hummer Winblad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 CHAPTER 23 DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON 37signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 CHAPTER 24 PHILIP GREENSPUN ArsDigita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 CHAPTER 25 JOEL SPOLSKY Fog Creek Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 CHAPTER 26 STEPHEN KAUFER TripAdvisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 CHAPTER 27 JAMES

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seeing if you get there. Think like a big dog, and find leverage to get there. C H A P T E 23 R David Heinemeier Hansson Partner, 37signals David Heinemeier Hansson helped transform 37signals from a consulting company to a product company in early 2004. He wrote the company’s first product, Basecamp, an online

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to fund it. So we had only a quarter of a programmer dedicated to the development and no funds really for doing this. The designers David Heinemeier Hansson 311 were giving it a third of their time at most. And we realized through this process that those constraints—which sound negative—were actually

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the prices and at the same time create a less risky offer for small companies since they didn’t have to buy a whole year. David Heinemeier Hansson 313 One of the technical mistakes that we made early on was that we had this notion that Basecamp was for creative services firms. Set

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superhuman strength involved. We aren’t producing more lines of software than everybody else; we’re just making each line count for so much more. David Heinemeier Hansson 315 Livingston: So, much of your innovation was driven by your own needs, rather than your clients’ requests? Heinemeier Hansson: Very much so. It’s

The Connected Company

by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal · 2 Dec 2014 · 372pp · 89,876 words

something that’s valuable and supports people in their work. 37signals is a small software company with fewer than 30 full-time employees. In 2003, David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals was working on the company’s core software product, Basecamp, a web-based project-management application. He was writing code in a language

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PROTOCOL Next-Generation Internet Protocol to Enable Net-Centric Operations, US Department of Defense, news release no. 413–03, June 13, 2003. RUBY ON RAILS David Heinemeier Hansson, “Good Programming is Like Good Writing,” BigThink, August 3, 2010, http://bigthink.com/ideas/21598. PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGIES Miriah Meyer, “Gamer cracks code, finds jewel,” The

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

by Shane Snow · 8 Sep 2014 · 278pp · 70,416 words

are complicated and the answers are simple. —DR. SEUSS Chapter 4 PLATFORMS “The Laziest Programmer” I. The team was in third place by the time David Heinemeier Hansson leapt into the cockpit of the black-and-pink Le Mans Prototype 2 and accelerated to 120 miles per hour. A dozen drivers jostled for

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which he receives no royalties. His work has contributed to revolutions, and lowered the barrier for thousands of tech companies* to launch products. All because David Heinemeier Hansson hates to do work he doesn’t have to do. DHH lives and works by a philosophy that helps him do dramatically more with his

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” in 1967, put the “Einstein” quote a bit differently: “You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.” IV. David Heinemeier Hansson was in a deep hole. Halfway through his stint, the sprinkling rain had become a downpour. Curve after curve, he fishtailed at high speed, still

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on being great, rather than reinventing wheels or repeating ourselves. “You can build on top of a lot of things that exist in this world,” David Heinemeier Hansson told me. “Somebody goes in and does that hard, ground level science based work. “And then on top of that,” he smiles, “you build the

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at the college he managed to get into) and reading a lot of articles on the Internet. He was a smart kid, a practitioner of David Heinemeier Hansson’s selective slacking, and, it turns out, good at engineering. But designing minisatellites wasn’t big enough for Grammatis. After leaving SpaceX in 2009, he

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport · 5 Jan 2016

models, there are few who deny that in 2012 this thirty-five-year-old data whiz was a winner in our economy. Another winner is David Heinemeier Hansson, a computer programming star who created the Ruby on Rails website development framework, which currently provides the foundation for some of the Web’s most

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of the high-skilled worker. Intelligent machines are not an obstacle to Silver’s success, but instead provide its precondition. The Superstars The ace programmer David Heinemeier Hansson provides an example of the second group that Brynjolfsson and McAfee predict will thrive in our new economy: “superstars.” High-speed data networks and collaboration

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Gets Wrong.” The New Yorker, January 25, 2013. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/01/what-nate-silver-gets-wrong.html. Information about David Heinemeier Hansson comes from the following websites: • David Heinemeier Hanson. http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/. • Lindberg, Oliver. “The Secrets Behind 37signals’ Success.” TechRadar, September 6, 2010. http://www

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries

by Peter Sims · 18 Apr 2011 · 207pp · 57,959 words

’s book is well done, a how-to guide for corporate intrapreneurs, managers, and entrepreneurs to frame creative thinking processes and systems. Fried, Jason, and David Heinemeier Hansson. Rework. New York: Crown, 2010. Fried and Hansson, founders of 37Signals, a web software company, play an important role with web businesses these days: They

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan · 1 Feb 2019 · 309pp · 81,975 words

the courage of your convictions, one way or the other. Minimum Viable Policy. Maximizing freedom means minimizing policy. In their book Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson of Basecamp warn that isolated incidents can too easily lead to bureaucracy. “Policies are organizational scar tissue. They are codified overreactions to situations that are

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Edmondson, Charles Eisenstein, Gerard Endenburg, Robin Fraser, Jason Fried, Isaac Getz, James Gleick, Seth Godin, Deborah Gordon, Paul Graham, Adam Grant, Dave Gray, Gary Hamel, David Heinemeier Hansson, Tim Harford, Frederick Herzberg, Jeremy Hope, Steven Johnson, Daniel Kahneman, Kevin Kelly, David Kidder, Doug Kirkpatrick, Henrik Kniberg, Lars Kolind, John Kotter, Frederic Laloux, Jason

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. retention, operations, and promotions: “Our Story,” David Marquet, accessed September 1, 2018, www.davidmarquet.com/our-story. “Policies are organizational scar tissue”: Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework (New York: Crown Business, 2010), 260. authority structures is W. L. Gore: “Our Beliefs & Principles,” Gore, accessed September 1, 2018, www.gore.com/about

Ruby by example: concepts and code

by Kevin C. Baird · 1 Jun 2007 · 309pp · 65,118 words

MatzLisp. On the other hand, some Ruby aficionados stress Ruby’s 1 According to http://ruby-lang.org. similarities with Smalltalk and Perl, as did David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, in a June 2006 Linux Journal interview. Hansson also describes Ruby as “a language for writing beautiful code that makes programmers happy

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give Rails the attention it deserves. The definitive text on Rails is Agile Web Development with Rails, now in its second edition, by Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Rails), and others (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006). Other members of the Rails community also give high praise to Ruby for Rails by David Alan