Let My People Go Surfing - the Book

This is not so much a book review as a book recommendation. In fact I’m quite happy for you to stop reading this now and to go and buy Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard it’s that good.
Still here? OK I’ll talk a little about this great book.
I bought this book to read [...]

Let My People Go Surfing

A tweet from Ryan Carson yesterday, led me to Howies about page; a page which Ryan described as “inspiring” and I can see why.
There are two sections of Howies our beliefs page that I think are fantastic:
The rocking chair test
Every product we make has passed the ‘rocking chair test’. This is something we use to [...]

Treat Your Staff Like Adults and See What Happens to Your Business

I’m attending the Carsonified seminar Future of Web Design later this week and popped over to their (lovely) site to check some details; I noticed “We’re hiring!” on the homepage and thought I’d have a look.
Now I knew that Carsonified has a four day work week, but was hugely impressed by the other benefits [...]

Have You Got Your Train Ticket?

Albert Einstein was on a train. He couldn’t find his ticket after searching through his all his pockets and bags. The conductor approached him and said “Dr. Einstein, everyone knows who you are; I’m sure that Princeton can afford to buy you another ticket.”
To which Einstein replied “I’m not worried about the money, I need [...]