The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
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The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
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Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#2I'm still watching this, but before I forget: The statement about launching Basecamp on svn reminds me of Max Klein.
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#3Andrew, if you see this, the link to the mp3 is broken. (Same with the Kevin Hartz interview)
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#4I'm still watching this, but before I forget: The statement about launching Basecamp on svn reminds me of Max Klein.
I'm missing the reference here. (and it seems that there are too many Max Klein to get help from Google) Do you mind explaining what that means?
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#5I'm still watching this, but before I forget: The statement about launching Basecamp on svn reminds me of Max Klein.
I'm missing the reference here. (and it seems that there are too many Max Klein to get help from Google) Do you mind explaining what that means?
Jason said that it was really easy to launch Basecamp because they'd already built up an audience with their blog. Tons of instant PR from people who already wanted to hear from them.
Max (from here, http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=maxklein) said that he was going to be writing a blog about interesting, random stuff, so that when he announces something of importance, he'll have people listening. Thus Cube of M.
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#6Andrew, if you see this, the link to the mp3 is broken. (Same with the Kevin Hartz interview)
Fixed it. Thanks.
For some reason, this doesn't work: The FULL program http://mixergy.com/wp-content/uploads/Audio-Version.png alt="Audio Version" width="26" height="21" /> Prefer audio? Great! Right" rel="nofollow">http://mixergy.com/wp-content/audio/Mixergy-REWORK-Jason-Fri... click" here for the MP3 format.
But this does work: The FULL program http://mixergy.com/wp-content/uploads/Audio-Version.png alt="Audio Version" width="26" height="21" /> Prefer audio? Great! Right" rel="nofollow">http://mixergy.com/wp-content/audio/Mixergy-REWORK-Jason-Fri... click" here for the MP3 format.
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#7Andrew, if you see this, the link to the mp3 is broken. (Same with the Kevin Hartz interview)
Fixed it. Thanks. For some reason, this doesn't work: The FULL program http://mixergy.com/wp-content/uploads/Audio-Version.png alt="Audio Version" width="26" height="21" /> Prefer audio? Great! Right" rel="nofollow">http://mixergy.com/wp-content/audio/Mixergy-REWORK-Jason-Fri... click" here for the MP3 format . But this does work: The FULL program http://mixergy.com/wp-content/uploads/Audio-Version.png alt="Audio Ver…
But the audio RSS feed stopped working :( I've just noticed that I've lost like a week and a half of great interviews.
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#8Andrew is getting really good. I listen to maybe 1/10 shows. It's a lot of fun watching someone get better.
His strategy seemed to have been start with hyperactive bluntness which was great. It was a little hard listening to him say "how much do you make per year" to someone who didn't want to say it, but it meant he got. Now he seems to be getting more subtle and calm. He's getting good at picking the point where pushing needs to stop by intuition: "I'm happy to change my mind about big things but my beliefs are my beliefs." (around 31min).
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#9Hi Andrew - thanks for a great interview. Just wanted to comment on your point about "changing the world": though I'm sure you haven't reached your full ambition yet, I think you're definitely helping out the audience that you are reaching.
Re: The Biography of 37signals with Jason Fried
#10Andrew is getting really good. I listen to maybe 1/10 shows. It's a lot of fun watching someone get better. His strategy seemed to have been start with hyperactive bluntness which was great. It was a little hard listening to him say "how much do you make per year" to someone who didn't want to say it, but it meant he got. Now he seems to be getting more subtle and calm. He's getting good at picking the point where pu…
To clarify that point...
Believing in something doesn't mean you're closed minded. It means you have an opinion, a point of view. My beliefs come from keeping an open mind, questioning assumptions, experimenting with new ideas. I wouldn't believe what I believe without approaching life this way. My mind remains open, but I haven't found better answers yet so I'm comfortable with what I believe: Avoid organizational complexity, product complexity, and political complexity as best you can. Things are pretty simple and easy until you make them hard and complicated.
My 6th grade science teacher told me: "Never believe yourself to be completely certain of anything." I think that's good advice.
Hope that clarifies things. It was a great question from Andrew.