By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Yes, this book is co-written by DHH (founder of Ruby on Rails), an awesome guy and has contribute a lot to the tech landscape
- This book is written by the authors from the lessons they learned or applied while building their company 37Signals (now Basecamp)
- It is focussed on building a startup or ones own business, on the common mistakes which people get into while building it like mass hiring, or incorrectly validating the idea.
- It talks about the processes which goes in running a startup, from hiring, culture, how to handle competitors, and being productive at the same time.
- It emphasizes on remote work, and how they onboard new employees to their team. Also, how much great work they are doing while being a small packed team, spread all around the world.
- I could relate a lot of things to Levels.fyi, on how we are doing things, and mostly in the positive side.
- It talks about various way you go down the rabbit hole of doing nothing, and what you are doing wrong with your product, and how to improve yourself in building the product and getting it to the right customers.
Would I recommend it? Definitely for people who want to build an startup
Would I read it? Yes, a lot of things to absorb in this, might need 2-3 reads in the long run.