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Friedisms
- timf 17y agoThis seems mean (not to mention pointless)..
- javan 17y agoI'd be flattered if someone made a site like this about me.
- timf 17y agoMaybe I'm missing something but each entry seems like a sarcastic attack on the guy. You would be flattered?
- javan 17y agoYes, I think it marks a certain level of success/fame when someone takes the time to make a parody of you. Most Saturday Night Live skits for example or http://www.fakesteve.net/ http://www.fakesteve.net/
- apike 17y agoI like Friedisms so far because rather than being mean, they're just light-hearted exaggerations of Fried's idiosyncrasies. It's funny since what he says can be formulaic, but it still rings true in a silly way. Fake Steve is often that way too, as opposed to, say, @fakemerlinmann.
- tptacek 17y agoI don’t believe in robots. Why would anyone build something with so many parts when we still have monkeys. This guy is awesome!
- antidaily 17y agoI wish this was real.
- zaidf 17y agoYeah got me wondering too. So this is a parody? Please confirm someone.
- pchristensen 17y agoI can't "confirm" it, but these are slightly dickish caricatures of the Jason Fried/37signals/Getting Real concepts. Jason is a good, smart guy and anyone who wouldn't waste his time doing something like this.
- barmstrong 17y agoYes it's a parody.
- dpcan 17y agoMaybe this is mean, but when I read blog posts by him, this is all I see. Arrogance and disobedience. I read it because everyone is reading it, but I hate reading it. I always feel like he's sending poor new boot-strappers down the path of destruction and he doesn't seem to care - it's all about getting eyeballs on his blog and on his products. He disagrees with just about every tried-and-true business strategy that ever existed, and he gets a lot of readers by just flipping the ideas upside down. Please, if you're starting a business, write a basic plan (at least), set goals for your business, and launch when you feel the time is right, not just early because everyone says to launch early. After all, everyone around the tech forums just want you to launch early because they want to see if you have a good idea that's not flushed out enough yet so they can copy it quickly and build it out faster and better than you. Only the competition are reading these threads - your customers are out in the world.
- unalone 17y agoHe's a controversial writer for that reason. I find that he switches between really writing fascinating insights into how he does work and being a dick for the sake of being a dick.
- dan_sim 17y agoand launch when you feel the time is right, not just early because everyone says to launch early There's so much thing from 37signals that are applied blindly by "startups" : subdomains (mycompany.theapp.com), launching too early, having a name that is [random_number][random_word]. They have good ideas but sometimes, it may not be good for you...
- there 17y agosubdomains (mycompany.theapp.com) that's hardly a 37signals "thing" and makes sense in a lot of products. if i remember correctly, livejournal moved users from livejournal.com/user to user.livejournal.com many years ago for security reasons due to some cookie issue with a certain browser. moving to subdomains allowed them to set per-host cookies.
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- staunch 17y agoI do think this could site could add a touch of friendliness to make it less harsh. I have to admit it has occurred to me that he sounds like The Sphinx from Mystery Men sometimes. The Sphinx: When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack. The Sphinx: When you care what is outside, what is inside cares for you.
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- chubbard 17y agoJason Fried == Jack Handy 2.0