The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show How to Say No to Protect Your Time with Jason Fried
Build Leverage With Small Experiments
- Ask for small experiments to build leverage (e.g., one day a month working from home).
- Deliver results, then negotiate incremental freedoms rather than demanding large changes upfront.
Power Of Intentional Don'ts
- Choosing what you won't do clarifies what you will do and shapes company culture.
- Basecamp's 'don'ts' (no outside funding, few meetings, flat pricing) enable independence and focus.
Flat Pricing Prevents Client Capture
- Flat pricing avoids dependence on a few high-paying customers and prevents becoming a consulting shop.
- A static, even customer base lets you afford to lose customers and make product choices freely.
With so much information, and gadgets and access and hustle and email and …and.. aren't you overloaded at work!? It's understandable and it's a real problem. If this describes you or someone you love…you'll LOVE this episode of the show.
Enter: Jason Fried. He's the brilliant NYT best-selling author and co-founder of the software firm, Basecamp. Since long before meeting Jason in person he's always caught my eye as perhaps THE outspoken thinker / critic of the current status of work, our unhealthy habits around our jobs, and our addictions to busy-making. Whether it's the toxic hustle, the grow-at-all-cost mentality, or the idea of working your fingers to the bone…Jason helps us all see why 99% of this approach is rubbish. And within 3 minutes of meeting him / listening to this episode, I'm banking you'll be in agreement with him.
The one refreshing difference with Jason? He also gives us a roadmap to fix what we've broken. In this episode we talk about his latest book (co-authored with previous CJLIVE podcast guest David Heinemeier Hansson) called It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work, which lays out a play-by-play on how to avoid all exhaustion, stress, and burnout and how to find tools for reshaping success, habits, trust, self care, and gaining that much-needed fresh perspective.
In this episode, we cover
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How hard work and hours are not the same thing. In fact, long hours leads to burn out.
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Why instant communication (slack, messenger, text etc) is making us slaves to our devices, less effective, and spending more time on the conveyor belt of information consumption than doing any real work.
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Some insights and strategies for regaining control over our screen time, our sleep patterns, and where we put our our attention.
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A re-framing of our always-busy culture around the JOYS of missing out. Not FOMO…we're talking JOMO.
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Why regaining control of our time starts with learning how to say no.
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…and that's all in the first 10 minutes. Just kidding but you get the point. This episode of the podcast is chock full of inspired virtues for reclaiming our spirit, doing GREAT work and loving life in the process.
Enjoy!
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