March 11, 2:11
My partner in excellence, Jason Fried, has been interviewed by O'Reilly's Marc Hedlund under the title The Builders of Basecamp. It shall be no secret that I was a huge fan of 37signals and Jason's work and ton long before I actually got involved with the company some three years ago. This interview does a fine job of highlighting a lot of the reasons why.
Jason has an incredible passion and drive for keeping it simple, telling it straight, and delivering. I'm frequently counting my lucky stars that he decided to attempt to learn PHP back in '01, that he couldn't make it work and asked for help, and that my help got the relationship going.
Asked about why we went with Ruby and subsequently extracted Rails, Jason speaks straight to my ideal on management and cooperation:
If you don't trust your developer to choose the right environment, then how can you trust him to build the best application? Trust is critical here. And, further, why would you dare impact your developer's morale by throwing him or her into a language where he can't be as productive or as satisfied? You only get good work from people who enjoy doing the work. I'll take a happy average programmer over a disgruntled, frustrated master programmer any day.
From that, it's not hard to see how we were drawn to the vision for Basecamp:
Our baseline approach is this: project management is communication. Projects don't fail from a lack of charts, graphs, tables, reports, stats, spreadsheets, and so on. Projects fail from a lack of simple two-way communication.
I wouldn't want to run a business with any other partner in the world. I wouldn't want to run any other business than 37signals in the world. And I wouldn't want to work on any other products than the family we're building with Basecamp, Ta-da List, Writeboard, and Honey. I'm having the time of my life in the best possible company.
So that's my round merry, happy back padding for today :)
Challenge by Enough Already on March 11, 7:08
Come on! Sure, Jason's a smart, good designer, etc. Basecamp is very easy to use, etc.
But a little restraint would go a long way here. You guys are doing good work, but you're not Google or Amnesty International or Apple now.
I'm looking forward to hearing about the next round of interesting things you come up with - I just hope they're announced with a few tons less hubris...
Challenge by Jason on March 11, 7:32
I think it depends on your point of view. I'm a huge Mac head, but if someone asked me which company I looked up to above all others, it would 37S, not Apple. A big part of that admiration is the passion they have for their products. I don't see anything wrong with anyone being proud for working there.
It's possible the attention could swell their heads, but they've handled it well so far (as far as I know), and I'll continue to admire them until they give me reason to do otherwise.
Challenge by Sunny on March 11, 7:33
I don't think its hubris. Its belief coming from their past success and implicit faith in their vision.
Keep it coming guys! All the best!
Challenge by Jakob S on March 11, 10:03
::Shoots envy beans in Davids direction::
Challenge by Curt Hibbs on March 11, 15:28
I see nothing wrong with excitement, passion, and commitment that is so compelling you can't contain yourself. I am happy for David and his compatriots. Those who object might what to look inward to see if they are, perhaps, just a little bit jealous and would rather not be reminded of that fact.
Challenge by Curt Hibbs on March 11, 15:30
That shoud have said "might *want* to look inward"
Challenge by kingbenny on March 11, 22:02
aww thats cute
seriously though, Jason's comments about projects being about communication versus charts and graphs were very insightful - I just spent 2 weeks in corporate america drawing a 96-page Visio flowchart =(
Challenge by delrone on March 12, 1:22
I love the idea of test driven development, but I have one problem... where's the 'How-To' at?
I know about the API's for Rails, and am familiar with how the testing framework is structured, but if someone could recommend a primer on testing in Rails, or some type of text on the subject in general that has been helpful to them (perhaps the Pragmattic guys have something?) I would be most grateful.
Challenge by Tim Lucas on March 12, 3:44
David: I'd take the above comment as a clue that your comment link may not be in the most ideal position.
Challenge by on March 15, 16:36
Uh, yes it is hubris: "My partner in excellence"
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