For class today your instructor, Mr. Fried, will be teaching on office culture, the pitfalls of well-funded startups, and why making something that is very simple yet highly effective is the best thing you can do for your company.

Your homework is to read this post from 2008 on how office culture is formed (or rather, how it isn’t).

(And for extra credit, check out the behind-the-scenes info on how this video interview was produced.)

Jason Fried’s Video Interview on Big Think