Draft intro — edit before publishing
REWORK is sharp, quotable, and easy to over-apply. Its advice came from a specific company in a specific shape — and copied without that context, some of it quietly backfires.
This review separates the durable principles from the survivorship bias. What holds up almost everywhere — bias to ship, distaste for fake busyness — and what only works when you’re small, profitable, and unbothered by scale.
I read it as a product manager asking a practical question of every chapter: under what conditions is this true, and what would it cost me to follow it on the wrong team?