#54 Jason Fried: Doing the Enough Thing

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Basecamp CEO and co-founder Jason Fried gives us a peek behind the scenes of his company and discusses his philosophy on doing great work, making a positive difference, and learning to breathe in the fast-paced culture of today’s workplace.

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0:00.0	It's just important to understand why you are leading someone in a certain direction.
0:03.9	I'm not sure that it's always that well thought out.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome.
0:16.5	I'm Shane Parrish and this is another episode of the Knowledge Project to podcast exploring
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0:25.2	have already figured out.
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0:33.8	Listen, I get emails all the time from people saying, I never knew you had a newsletter,
0:39.9	so I'm going to put a little plug in here for the newsletter.
0:42.8	We do.
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1:03.4	Most of the guests on the show are subscribers to the weekly email, so make sure you check
1:06.8	it out.
1:08.3	On the show today is Jason Preet, the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp and the author of ReWork
1:13.8	and it doesn't have to be crazy at work.
1:16.6	When I look for examples around people running a business the way I want to run a business,
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