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ultrafilter posted:Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting Ending with quote:Another employee said they had been thrown by the fact that the founders, after years of telling employees that they were part of an elite chosen few who were good enough to work at Basecamp, would get rid of them so easily. So much in here. Snowing the employees with how amazing they are until you have to get rid of them. Techbros just wanting to be about the technology. Not wanting to manage. Basecamp / 37Signals being one of those places that was all about breaking the rules and telling everyone else how amazing they were. Extra layer is that DHH was one of the founding figures in Ruby on Rails, and even then there was this odd thing that he was technically mediocre, but held up as a visionary figure. Which may have played into RoR being so crazily uneven and putting so much stock in how revolutionary it was.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I like the part where the founders have written 5 books on successfully managing employees. I mean, not their own employees. Or like those CEOs who write books about their business strategy, when actually it's all down to survivorship bias
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Stexils posted:the guy who wrote hollywood book "save the cat" about The Rules for screenplays only ever made two terrible films, neither of which you've ever heard of: stop! or my mom will shoot, and blank check Read a thing this morning about that whole ecosystem of meta-content-creators: people who aren't actually successful at X but will coach you on how to become great at X. Scriptwriters, entrepreneurs, traders, songwriters ...
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Knormal posted:There's no McDonald's in Iceland? That surprises me. If my memory is correct, Iceland had laws that all meat must be sourced locally. McDonalds wouldn't adhere to that so they left.
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