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 {{a|book review|ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever|Jason Fried|R2ANYF48BJ1GM2|6 March 2012|Pre-jump briefing for parachutists.}}
-Much of {{br|Rework}} is memorialised common sense - but that kind of common sense that gets glossed over every hour of every day in every organisation in the world.
+Much of {{br|Rework}} is memorialised common sense — but that kind of common sense that gets glossed over every hour of every day in every organisation in the world.
-It is written in a brutally economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated: simplify, simplify, simplify. It is also a manifesto for those who want to start their own business. For those who dream fitfully of pulling the rip cord on the corporate treadmill - and let's face it: in these miserable times, we are many - this might be just the firm push between the shoulder blades we need.
+It is written in a brutally economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated: simplify, simplify, simplify. It is also a manifesto for those who want to start their own business. For those who dream fitfully of pulling the rip cord on the corporate treadmill — and let’s face it: in these miserable times, we are the many, not the few — this might be just the firm push between the shoulder blades we need.
-Rework is funny, too, and it contains many quotable quotes. My favourite: “Policies are organisation scar tissue. They are codified over-reactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again”.
+Rework is funny, too, and it contains many quotable quotes. My favourite: “[[Policy|Policies]] are organisational scar tissue. They are codified over-reactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again”.
 Beautiful: and so true, says your correspondent from [[Legal]].
-You'll be through it in a day, but you'll read it again.
+You’ll be through it in a day, but you’ll read it again.
 Excellent stuff.
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+*[[Policy]]
 *{{br|Normal Accidents}}
 *[[Playbook]]