Chris Herring

Whilst traveling to and from Berlin thanks to Ireland’s favorite budget airline I read, ‘ReWork’ by Jason Fried from 37siganls. The large, wide sweeping statements found on the back cover, may put a few off however I found the book interesting, relevant if a little short. There’s nothing too ground breaking to be found in the book, instead numerous articles centred around how 37signals operate, often with copious amount of common sense and simplicity. ‘ReWork’ is great if you work in a small business and want to look at things from a fresh perspective, and for those in massive corporate companies its perhaps frustrating that 37signals don’t feel the strain of corporate red tape . As with anything, you can always take something positive away, and with ‘ReWork’ this happened numerous times throughout the book.

The following interview with Jason Fried from 37signals was featured on http://thestartupfoundry.com/ where he discusses, “Why you can’t actually work at work”.

37signals are a small web application company based in Chicago, their products include Backpack, Campfire, and Highrise are used by millions and written with the framework they created Ruby on Rails.