<rant>This is nerd-bait, and I'm quickly getting my fill of "hey, we need to rethink things!" without there actually being any rethinking going on. Yes, we nee

<rant>This is nerd-bait, and I'm quickly getting my fill of "hey, we need to rethink things!" without there actually being any rethinking going on. Yes, we need to rethink things. We constantly need to rethink things. Introspection is the root of all improvement. I think we've got that by now. I don't mean to vent, but what the tech community is really interested in is results, not more bloggers with opinions. Got plenty of these guys already. So show me you've tried something and it works, I'll collect the details, and over time and hundreds of experiments, we can start to draw some correlations. A few stories and an upcoming book ain't going to cut it. What I'm seeing in the tech community is this rise of, for lack of a better term, dimestore pundits. Some guy gets a big contract for XCorp, tries working with people dressed up like chickens. Now he has a website and a book on how we're all supposed to dress up like chickens when we work. It's always been like this -- the folks with the megaphones drowning out the folks who plod along trying to spot patterns and share stories without becoming dogmatic. But lately people are climbing on this bandwagon where in order to grow, you should be teaching something. So hell, everybody with a keyboard is now a teacher. That's not a recipe for helping folks, that's a recipe for generating widespread cynicism. I wish the 37Signals the best of luck in these marketing efforts. I understand they're quite awesome. I just get tired of being baited with half-assed conjecture sitting on top of a few anecdotes. Things have changed. The world moves on. We're the tech community. We get that. So show me the startups that are changing the world with remote teams. Show me the consulting companies that are killing the competition by using distributed teams. Show me the companies that are clamoring for distributed and remote teams because they're finding them so efficient. Show me a bunch of data. Then you can wave your hands around and we can all have a nice sing-a-long about the brave new world we're headed into. Otherwise it's just self-gratifying noise.</rant>