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Barak Gila's avatar

huge scoop that completely changed how I feel about this issue! Given how clearly this policy changed was linked to events at Basecamp, I'm wondering if the founders actually expected to get away with not mentioning those events.

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Todd Sieling's avatar

Terrific reporting, Casey. For the intensity of the post that basecamp made about its policy change, I expected a way bigger conflict. However they expected posting publicly to go, I’m sure this isn’t it. For the brand, and more so the team, this is going to leave a nasty mark.

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Ian Betteridge's avatar

I am unsurprised it was a conflict that looks almost minor – but that was escalated by DHH, who appears to be a man fond of using the nuclear option in any argument rather than seeking consensus. That’s not a useful trait in leadership. As I said on Twitter, that kind of public dressing down of an employee by a senior leader was frowned on in most companies 20 years ago. It says more about DHH than it does anyone else in the whole sorry saga.

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Todd Sieling's avatar

It really does nothing for DHH’s look which hasn’t improved, and pulls Freid down with him who had cultivated a more mature presence the past few years. One thing that jumped out to me was how DHH was moaning on twitter about people digging up his old tweets to dunk on him, which is exactly what he did with chat logs only against an employee.

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Hadi's avatar

Off topic, but I really like how Casey use 🚨 to label article as special features, like John Gruber does with ★. Another good write-up.

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Casey Newton's avatar

Thanks for noticing. :) I try not to overuse it but I do like flagging the good stuff.

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