About
Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the software company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE, and one of the world’s most influential advocates for calm, profitable, and independent business practices.
Alongside David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), he has co-authored iconic New York Times bestselling books on modern work and management, including Rework, Remote, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and Getting Real. For over two decades, he has championed product simplicity, sustainable bootstrapping without venture capital, and organizational sanity.
On his personal blog on HEY World (world.hey.com/jason), he shares concise, incisive reflections on product design philosophy, business decision-making, creative constraints, and maintaining a balanced life in tech.
You can also find Jason Fried on:
- Website: https://world.hey.com/jason
- GitHub: jasonfried
Articles
- $5300 in $100s: The verdict
- $5300 in $100s
- Mistaking making for the thing you've made
- The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it.
- A new interview
- Great design was a Cuisinart
- The joy of delegating to competence
- The big regression
- Introducing Fizzy, our newest product
- A beta is like inviting guests over
- Quality: The Concept2 RowErg
- The next product
- When design drives behavior
- What to do with $2M?
- Marketing is...
- An obligation to independence
- Knives and battleships
- A fly and luck
- Years of evidence
- Turning back can be getting ahead
- Cover letters? Yes!
- On Legacy
- Why new when?
- Doing what you think, not what you thought
- Go do business
- Randomly right
- Hiring judgement
- Governor Newsom: Please help Franklin fire victims
- What's still here?
- We increased conversion ~30% and we don't know exactly how