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Acknowledgments
Very special thanks go to Matthew Linderman. Matt was 37signals' first
employee in 1999--and he's still with the company today. This book
wouldn't have come together without Matt. In addition to writing original
content, he helped merge the distinctly different writing styles of the
coauthors into a focused, cohesive book. He made it look easy, but it wasn't
easy work. Thank you, Matt.
We also want to thank our families, our customers, and everyone at
37signals. And here's a list of some of the people we know, and don't know,
who have inspired us in one way or another:
Frank Lloyd Wright
Seth Godin
Warren Buffett
Jamie Larson
Clayton Christensen
Ralph Nader
Jim Coudal
Benjamin Franklin
Ernest Kim
Jeff Bezos
Scott Heiferman
Antoni Gaudi
Carlos Segura
Larry David
Steve Jobs
Dean Kamen
Bill Maher
Thomas Jefferson
Mies van der Rohe
Ricardo Semler
Christopher Alexander James Dyson
Kent Beck
Thomas Paine
Gerald Weinberg
Kathy Sierra
Julia Child
Marc Hedlund
Nicholas Karavites
Michael Jordan
Richard Bird
Jeffrey Zeldman
Dieter Rams
Judith Sheindlin
Ron Paul
Timothy Ferriss

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Copyright (c) 2010 by 37signals, LLC.
All rights reserved.
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Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fried, Jason.
Rework / Jason Fried and David Hansson.--1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Industrial management. 2. 37signals--company.
I. Hansson, David Heinemeier. II. Title.
HD31.F755 2010
658.22--dc22 2009036114
eISBN: 978-0-307-46376-0
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