I 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

I 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.