I think one of the problems is bad hiring. If you hire someone who wants to be a Ruby developer writing new code to maintain a PHP site, you're going to see bor

I think one of the problems is bad hiring. If you hire someone who wants to be a Ruby developer writing new code to maintain a PHP site, you're going to see boredom. Marc Andreessen talks about using hiring and interviews as a filtering process e.g. "In this company we all do yoga for an hour at 2pm. Do you like Yoga? Are you going to have fun doing yoga for a hour every day?". [Real example of a yoga startup IIRC] Here's the podcast, and it's probably ecorner's best ever if you haven't already heard it: http://www.stanford.edu/group/edcorner/uploads/podcast/andreessen100512.mp3 http://www.stanford.edu/group/edcorner/uploads/podcast/andre...