{"id":2543,"date":"2016-02-02T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:14:48","slug":"rework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/rework\/","title":{"rendered":"REWORK &#8211; Jason Fried and David Hansson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My notes from the great book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1QDZt0m\">REWORK<\/a> by Jason Fried and David Hansson which I rated 5\/5 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/6359158\">my Goodreads account<\/a>. <em>Yes, they merged Shelfari (which I loved) with Goodreads (which I don&#8217;t like too much) and I guess I need some adjustment period.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you build software, every error message is marketing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workaholics aren&#8217;t heroes. They don&#8217;t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plus, if you\u2019re a copycat, you can never keep up. You\u2019re always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that\u2019s already behind the times\u2014just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That\u2019s no way to live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They&#8217;re not fuck or shit. They&#8217;re need, must, can&#8217;t, easy, just, only and fast. These words gets in the way of healthy communication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press Releases are spam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about it this way: If you had to launch your business in two weeks, what would you cut out?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My notes from the awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/book?src=hash\">#book<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rework?src=hash\">#Rework<\/a> by Fried and Hansson <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H5eTr7CjeF\">https:\/\/t.co\/H5eTr7CjeF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cSne01TMpI\">pic.twitter.com\/cSne01TMpI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nikola Bre\u017enjak (@HitmanHR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitmanHR\/status\/694447932657913856\">February 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My notes from the great book REWORK by Jason Fried and David Hansson which I rated 5\/5 on my Goodreads account. Yes, they merged Shelfari (which I loved)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}