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> I definitely wasn't expecting that because Jason Fried didn't give his company a month off. Jason Fried just gave his company a new role for a month. Yeah, l
by saraid216 14y ago
> I definitely wasn't expecting that because Jason Fried didn't give his company a month off. Jason Fried just gave his company a new role for a month.
Yeah, like a lot of other people, my expectation was that everyone got a month of paid, mandatory vacation. A month-long hackathon is a lot less interesting.
- HeyLaughingBoy 14y agoPerhaps. But it still is a lot more fun than doing the "same old" for that month.
- saraid216 14y agoIt's not interesting from my perspective. It's a good idea. Many companies could benefit from it. Not Valve, but many companies.
- robertpateii 14y agoWhat do you mean not Valve? Not Valve because they're already doing it every month of the year?
- saraid216 14y agoYes.
- paragraft 14y agoFrom what I've read of the origins of Portal 2 (and I can't provide a link citation, it was in The Final Hours of Portal 2, a long form piece released as an ipad app), Valve did something very similar to this, all the employees went away to work on whatever ideas, came back and presented them. The coop model with two robots for Portal 2 came from that, as did a non-portals gameplay device that evidently got them excited enough to start building Portal 2 around, until they realised they couldn't do a Portal sequel that didn't have portals.
- jetti 14y agoExcept when you get back to that "same old" and now have to make up for the month that was lost!