Most people spend most of their active hours working. And if one hates their job, dread going to work, and don't gain any satisfaction out of what they're doing, it can take a severe toll on their life. Their heavy workloads place individuals with specific personality characteristics and lifestyle features at a higher risk of burnout. Burnout is the condition of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when one feels overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. Stress and long work hours are well-known stereotypes in businesses ever since. Entrepreneurship is not a cutthroat survival competition. CEOs who work late and boast about getting four hours of sleep are as irresponsible as leaders who forget that their suggestions have the weight of commands and change everyone's priorities. Sleep deprivation and burnout do not make effective, creative employees. But it doesn't have to be crazy at work.
David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE CRAZY AT WORK
Instead of crazy like rush-hour traffic, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work suggests choosing to establish a calm firm. Jason is the CEO, and David the CTO of Basecamp, founded in 2003. The New York Times bestseller “ReWork”‘s authors build their message with a bold, radical strategy for creating the ideal company culture—known as “the calm company.” Their approach directly attacks the chaos, anxiety, and stress that plagues millions of workplaces and hinders billions of workers every day. It calls out false cures and pushes back against ritualistic time-sucks that have infected the way people work.
Long hours, excessive workload, and lack of sleep are not a badge of honor for modern professionals; but a mark of stupidity. Sadly, this is a problem for large organizations; individuals, contractors, and solopreneurs burn themselves out the same way. The answer to healthier productivity isn’t more hours—it’s less waste and fewer things that produce distraction and persistent stress. It’s time to stop glorifying Crazy and start honoring Calm, Fried, and Hansson state.
Jason Fried is the co-founder of 37signals, a Chicago-based company that develops web-based productivity tools that do less competition. 37signals’ simple but powerful collaboration tools include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-da List, and Writeboard. 37signals also built and open-sourced the Ruby on Rails programming framework.
David Heinemeier Hansson, co-author of Rework, about new ways to conceptualize working and creating. David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder & CTO at Basecamp, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, frequent podcast guest, and family man. Basecamp is the saner, organized way to manage projects and communicate company-wide. It’s a SaaS company and has been around for fifteen years with its team of 50 programmers, designers, supporters, and sysops.
Spencer Coon is the founder and CEO of Beamer (2018). He started his career in finance as an IB Analyst in NYC. Spencer expertise in building SaaS companies, Latin America finance, fundraising, valuation, and M & M & M&A. He loves running hyper lean bootstrapped, B2B SaaS companies outside SF. Coon is also fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Beamer is an easy-to-use newsfeed and changelog that helps improve user engagement. Customers use Beamer to announce relevant news, latest features, and updates. It provides feedback and evaluation from users & visitors. Measure results with Analytics to make intelligent decisions based on accurate data. Beamer’s changelog and notification center help user engagement get up to 3x more, increase customer retention and convert more leads. Beamer is trusted by 5000 companies worldwide. Spencer and his team of five generated over $1.1 million in revenue last 2020. Coon applied Jason Fried’s philosophies to his work ethics that lead to the success of his businesses.
― Spencer Coon, Founder of BEAMER
The book provides refreshing antidotes for poisonous habits at work. It’s perfect for any founder and CEO with their work ethic and routine troubles. It Doesn’t Have To Be At Work focuses on establishing a calm company for founders and helping CEOs change their old toxic ways to calm healthy methods.
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