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Rework
The dream employee for a lot of companies is a twenty-something with as little of a life as possible outside of work–someone who’ll be fine working fourteen-hour days and sleeping under his desk. But packing a room full of these burn-the-midnight-oil types isn’t as great as it seems. [. . .] You don’t need more hours; you need better hours. When people have something to do at home, they get down to business. They get their work done because they have somewhere else to be. They find ways to be more efficient because they have to.
Some chapters had me nodding my head in agreement, happy to see my unconventional beliefs in print and other chapters had me shaking my head and rethinking some of my ideas.
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson logically argue for their way of thinking and by the end of the page you are wondering why you didn’t see the wisdom of their ideas yourself a long time ago.
Some of the ideas in the book I have discovered on my own, especially since going out on my own, but I wish I this book had been around years ago. I would have saved a lot of time and effort and been much more productive. I might have even gone out on my own much sooner.
This book is a must read for the creative, independent entrepreneur (starter) who wants to make it on his/her own, doing his/her own thing. This book will support many of the beliefs you already hold and blow some of them out of the water.
Source: The Dreaming Cafe