We all want to de-clutter our lives. They get bogged down with crap. I don’t know where it comes from but after a while you get into a routine of doing things the wrong way. It’s a slow process that gradually creeps up on you. Then you forget to take some time to evaluate how you can improve. Make things work better for you.
I’m not a big reader. I do follow a few blogs and twitter streams on a daily basis. One company I follow is 37Signals. I like what they have to say. They’re never afraid to just come out and say how they feel. The company is owned by two guys, David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried. David’s the programmer, Jason’s the designer. The work extremely well together.
Jason founded 37Signals back in 1999. David came on board sometime between 2003 and 2004. Together they created something that I haven’t really seen happen much. They created a work ethic that challenged everything. They grabbed every piece of their daily working life and tore it apart and made it work best for them. It first stemmed from doing it to their business, then to their working lives. From products to productivity.
37Signals: Rework
37 Signals created a book called “Rework”.
They wanted people to know. So the guys at 37Signals wrote a book outlining how these believed things should work. Taking on the perspective of so many businesses today and pointing out, through their own experiences, where they were wrong. You can’t really disagree with that when it is obviously working for them.
I recommend anyone who would like to review their day to day work life and how they take on challenges to have a read of this. I mean it’s only 5.50GBP from Amazon!
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[...] This will be my second read from the guys at 37signals. I have recently read their other, more recent book, ReWork. It was probably one of the best books I’d bought in a long time. I’d recommend it to anyone. I have more information about that in a previous blog post here “Grab some reworking perspective” [...]