Episode · My First Million · 2026-03-17
Books mentioned on DHH: $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru
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Shaan Puri discussed Rework by Jason Fried and others. David Heinemeier Hansson recommended Maverick by Ricardo Semler and Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck, and discussed Getting Real by 37 Signals and others, Jab, jab, jab, right hook by Gary Vaynerchuk, and Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Rework
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson is a provocative and influential business manifesto that challenges traditional corporate wisdom, offering unconventional insights into productivity, remote work, and running a lean organization.
Discussed“And Rework was a fantastic book. Your website right now is basically kind of like Rework.”
Where to get it
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Getting Real
Getting Real by 37 Signals, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Matthew Linderman is a manifesto outlining a smarter, leaner approach to building software and running a business without unnecessary bloat.
Discussed“Getting Real, the first book, that manifesto from '99, Rework from 2010, a lot of that stuff still holds up”
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Jab, jab, jab, right hook
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk is a business and marketing guide that outlines modern social media strategies, emphasizing the importance of delivering consistent value before asking for a sale.
Discussed“And there's a great Gary V has this book Jab Jab Right Hook. Love the book.”
Where to get it
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Maverick
Maverick by Ricardo Semler is a revolutionary business memoir detailing how the author transformed his family's traditional manufacturing company into a radically democratic workplace with employee self-management.
Recommended“One of the ones that I think maybe Jason has cited as well is Ricardo Semler who wrote a book called Maverick. I think it was published in the '90s.”
Where to get it
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Extreme Programming Explained
Discussed“So Kent Beck is the author of Extreme Programming, one of the heretical software methodologies back in the '90s”
Where to get it
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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck is a technical programming guide that codifies essential idioms, naming conventions, and structural patterns for writing clean and maintainable object-oriented code.
Recommended“My favorite book on the nitty-gritties of programming is a small book he wrote in the '90s called Smalltalk Best Practices.”
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