Rework

Fried and DHH compressed 37signals' operating philosophy into short, aphoristic chapters — the book's format is a deliberate rejection of the business-book norm. The arguments are contrarian in a calculated way: no meetings, no long-term plans, no venture capital, no scaling for its own sake. Some positions have aged strangely; others are more relevant now than they were at publication. For product direction the book is a useful provocation — a clear statement of the positions most mainstream product culture implicitly rejects, and a reminder that those positions produced a durable software company. Read alongside Getting Real and Shape Up for the trilogy.