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The 37signals posts often seem rushed.
by FreeRadical 17y ago
The 37signals posts often seem rushed.
- aswanson 17y agoProbably busy counting profits.
- orblivion 17y agoOr not worry about losing a little profit here and there for speaking their mind.
- dhh 17y agoNot as much rushed as "good enough". When you have other things to do besides writing, you tend to get to that. Getting the idea off my chest and on to SvN rapidly means that it gets out there. Worrying about endless refining means that it doesn't.
- rewind 17y agoHaven't read the new book yet. Should I expect the same approach? I kid, I kid ;-)
- jasonfried 17y agoActually, the book is probably the most polished and edited product we've ever released. There is a typo though.
- robryan 17y agoI guess it's about having an image to keep up. 37signals has been built on these kind of posts, their business advice should include being a business guru. I doubt their brand would be as successful without these posts.
- blasdel 17y agoI had a long conversation with Jason Fried about this at Startup School in October -- his talk focused a lot on restraint and avoiding releasing features, which his business clearly does quite well in their products. But their SvN blog is the opposite: they post whatever strikes their fancy whenever they want. I prodded and he told me that there's no restraint on publishing -- any of their employees can post with no explicit pre-approval. He said that sometimes people will have him do a sanity check before posting, and he could only recall giving the thumbs-down once. I connected the dots and posited that the blog acts as the release valve for the whole company's feature angst -- he didn't really have a response (and was tired of talking to my crazy ass), but he didn't have a rebuttal either.