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  1. I remember reading some text written by the two Basecamp bros where they argued in favor to have a small number of employees to take better care of them Until they did the opposite of what they preached This is an unbelievable show of disastrous business and leadership skills t.co/1APgONg9Rd
    1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
      I’m sorry for the people who work at Basecamp You deserve better, and DHH and Fried never deserved you
      1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
        And on top of having destroyed *check notes* their image AND their workforce, they also probably massively impacted the technology that powers their company This is poor leadership on absolutely every level t.co/4AipyVG3jj
        1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
          Imagining slowly building a brand and a small but focused workforce and an entire technological stack for twenty years and literally burning all of this to the ground because you wanted to win an argument
          1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
            Grown men take responsibility for their actions, listen to the feedback even if it’s painful to hear, and change the course of their action in order to do the better thing Grown men don’t behave in this fragile pseudo-alpha male behavior
            1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
              What a good business decision it is to make your most experienced developers leave after 15 years because you couldn’t handle being wrong @sstephenson/1388146131377528832