Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
@mattlinderman From the “if it sounds like BS, it probably is” category: Goldman Sachs’ “synthetic collateralized debt obligation” http://nyti.ms/acXgJN
@dhh I mean, really, Apple, http://is.gd/buYUb and http://is.gd/buYTR – words fail me. (via timbray)—it’s a sad time to be an Apple “fan” :(
@rjs Bit the bullet and got a network drive. The WD My Book was really easy to set up. Plug into Time Capsule. Done. http://amzn.to/baWO0O
@dhh Someone should plot the historical likelihood of failure if a company reaches Series E funding. Gut says it’s towering. @mattlinderman Art w/ push pins instead of pixels. “Georges Seurat meets Office Depot.” Neat how viewer distance changes the impact. http://bit.ly/aBJ0JN @jasonfried “Knowing the name of something doesn’t mean you know the something.” -Richard Feynman (paraphrased) @mattlinderman http://bit.ly/de08xT – Consulting business? Cut back client work 50% for a while & build a product. Even if it fails, you’ll learn a ton. @rjs A product can be so compelling that it reaches out into its context and rearranges the constraining forces and incentives. @dhh Thanks to awesome some volunteers, we’re in the process of bringing Basecamp to Norweigan, Russian, Greek, French, Swedish, German, and more @rjs The more websites I work on, the more I understand why people say IA and graphic design are different skill sets. @asianmack Companies spend $$$ on interactive microsites. Agencies make $$$ creating them. Who goes there or remembers them? iAds won’t be better. @jasonfried Excess meetings, documents & policies are the saturated fats, sugars, preservatives & artificial ingredients of business.
TomKinton
on 16 Apr 10Work flows to those who perform it well.
nerkles
on 16 Apr 10Suggestion: provide a link to the tweet itself for easy RT.
Aaron M
on 16 Apr 10I like that last one by JF.
Lee
on 17 Apr 10@jasonfried – FDA say’s we should have no more then “37” grams of saturated fats per day in our diet. – Popcorn story from “made to stick.”
Tom O
on 17 Apr 10Guys, I love your products and the service you provide is top notch. You’ve made it!
But please, please, PLEASE stop dropping the “f bomb” and other such language in your posts. You don’t need it to appear that you’re keeping it real. We respect what you’ve done…OK?...your choice of words just diminishes your accomplishments. Please.
Mathew Patterson
on 19 Apr 10Personally I find the phrase “f bomb” to be far more annoying than the actual swearing.
GeeIWonder
on 19 Apr 10Regarding the Apple comments in general, it would’ve been far better and far more credible for the Signals to take issue with Apple BEFORE they released a product that is billed as the Kindle-killer.
But anyways..
Anonymous Coward
on 20 Apr 10GeeI: Huh? You’d like to see criticism of a product before it was released? That’s not useful.
GeeIWonder
on 20 Apr 10They’re giving ‘criticism’ of existing products and policies, like the iPhone and the App Store and the overheating laptop and the ‘sorry, but no dice’ service.
All I’m saying is doing that after Apple becomes a direct competitor to your major investor is a little weak. If you don’t say it before (I think they should’ve, but that’s another argument), you probably should refrain even if it comes out of nowhere and they reach completely unprecedented levels of conduct the consumer might find objectionable (which I don’t think they have).
Or have the intellectual honesty to come out and say you’re doing what you are doing at least.
DHH
on 21 Apr 10Gee, did you just find a tin-foil hat in your cereal box today? What an elaborate scheme of criticism to bring down Apple because they have a computer that also allows you to read books? What?!
The funny thing is that the one thing I’ve been using my iPad for the most is reading books. Typically through the Kindle app, in fact, because the books I want to read aren’t available through iBooks. Please compute that in your conspiracy theory machine. If the answer is 17, try again!
GeeIWonder
on 22 Apr 10Holy doth protest too much. No cereal today, DHH.
Look, it doesn’t have to be an elaborate scheme. It’s probably natural.
And I’m not saying you are saying anything now you wouldn’t have a year or two ago or during one of the Apple love-in posts that date from even further back. But here’s the thing: you didn’t. Sarah didn’t.
It’s a free world. Do what you want, I’m not stopping you.
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