Basecamp联合创始人Jason Fried分享了他对现代商业成功的看法，指出人们往往过分关注那些极端成功的案例。他坦诚地分析了WeWork、Uber和Lyft等公司可能带来的误导，并讲述了Basecamp的创立过程以及他对工作效率和生产的优化理念。此外，他还深入探讨了工作与生活的平衡，以及“努力工作”的真正含义。

🚀Jason Fried的创业精神：从他的背景和早期创业经历出发，探讨了完成高等教育和努力工作的观念。[详细]

🌟商业成功观：Jason分享了他对商业成功的信念，包括对WeWork、Uber和Lyft等公司的看法，以及这些公司不良商业行为和扭曲激励的隐患。[详细]

🔧Basecamp的诞生：Jason讲述了Basecamp的创立过程，以及他如何将优化效率和生产的理念应用于实际工作中。[详细]

🎯目标与愿景：Jason分享了他为何不设定目标，而是专注于愿景的原因，以及他在招聘和员工激励方面的实践。[详细]

🔍工作与生活平衡：探讨了减少工作量、优化工作自主性的框架，以及常说“不”的重要性及其技巧。[详细]

In this episode, Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp, shares his beliefs around achieving business success in a modern world which tends to disproportionately focus on the massive success stories (the outliers). Jason gives his honest take on companies like WeWork, Uber, and Lyft that may give off the appearance of wild success but may instead provide an example of the dangers of perverse incentives. We get into Jason’s backstory, and how his affinity for optimizing efficiency and production in the workplace culminated with the creation of Basecamp, his very successful web-based project management software business. Perhaps most importantly, we get really deep into all aspects of work-life balance and what it really means to “work hard” (Stay tuned for an AMA-style deep dive into the topic of work-life balance with Jason in the near future). In addition, Jason provides many more valuable nuggets including thoughts on some common mistakes made by businesses today, the value of giving employees autonomy, how to take the right types of risks, why he doesn’t set any goals, and much, much more.

We discuss:

Jason’s background and his early entrepreneurial spirit [9:45]; Views on completing higher education and the notion of hard work [24:00]; Beliefs around success in business [35:00]; WeWork, Uber, and Lyft: Poor business practices and the dangers of perverse incentives [41:30]; Jason’s early career: his redesign approach and personal motivation [56:00]; The genesis of Basecamp [1:10:00]; Why Jason does not set goals but instead focuses on a vision [1:12:15]; Workplace motivation and hiring practice [1:20:30]; The importance of luck and not overworking [1:32:00]; A framework to work less and optimize for workplace autonomy [1:38:00]; The importance of saying ‘no’ more often (and tips for doing so) [1:55:00]; A shared passion for watches [2:03:30]; Guarding against the perils of phone addiction [2:08:45]; Jason’s views on email and chat for communication [2:15:00] and; More.

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