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Jason Fried

19 recommendations

Everything Jason personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.

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Mushrooms uses other
"The last time I did these are mushrooms, by the way. I've done this three times. And the experiences are always wow like wow like while I'm doing it."
Concept2 Rower recommends product
"Concept2 is probably one of my favorite products of all time. The Concept2 rower. That is a perfect product. One of the few perfect products I've ever seen."
WhatsApp mentions software
"You want to write someone on WhatsApp? Well, they have to have WhatsApp signal. They have to have signal whatever, right?"
AOL mentions software
"I put up on AOL. So this is like pre-internet, right?"
Print magazine mentions media
"I think there was an organization called brand but maybe I'm wrong. Print actually was this magazine that had all these pictures of business cards and stuff and every designer I know would look through other business cards for inspiration."
The Creative Act mentions media
"When I read that book, I was like, did I write this book? Not like really, you wrote the book, but you know what I mean?"
Nest thermostat mentions product
"Like Nest is good. This doesn't have Nest. Like Nest is a great product. Thermostats have gotten worse. Nest maybe is an exception. I'll give grant them that. Good product. Really good product."
Tesla touchscreen mentions product
"Car manufacturers with the exception of Tesla because Tesla's is outstanding. But everyone else who put a bunch of screens in their cars, they're starting to move back to dials again."
Rolex Daytona mentions product
"You take a Rolex Daytona today and you look back at the first one in 1963. To me, the one in 1963, not just cuz it's older, it's better in my opinion aesthetically because it's the purest form of the concept of the idea."
AWS mentions software
"We just recently left the cloud, left AWS, and we're running our own stuff now in data centers."
Porsche 911 mentions product
"Porsche 911 similar but you were showing pictures from like I think let's just say it's Rolex. Look at this Rolex design in 1960. Basically perfect. Has everything I need, nothing I don't."
Signal mentions software
"You want to write someone on WhatsApp? Well, they have to have WhatsApp signal. They have to have signal whatever, right?"