“Joel Spolsky is changing the world. Maybe not your world, but the world of programmers and software companies and the people who work for them.” Opening lines of Seth Godin’s Tribes When we last left our hero (whom BTW I finally met last week when the FogBugz / Kiln tour hit Tel Aviv), Stack Overflow […]
Joel Spolsky has long been one of my role models. Some Spolsky highlights: Joel Spolsky Was thrown out of airplanes while serving in the Israeli army Helped found Kibbutz Hanaton Studied at Penn, graduated from Yale Worked as Program Manager for Microsoft Excel Biked across the US Founded 2 successful companies: FogCreek Software, and (with […]
Fantastic post today by Joel Spolsky Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? I could feel Joel’s pain. Essentially he was jettisoning the basic premises that had guided him for a decade. Joel came to the painful conclusion that there was only room for one big company in his market, and that if he continued only […]
Entrepreneurs, Product Managers and other otherwise intelligent people often get distracted by their ambition. Everything from Disney to these Out of the Box management (I mean leadership) books keep hitting you with hyperbole about dreaming big. Which is only OK if you also have the discipline to think and act small. Take Google. They have […]
Hey Joel, You don’t know me but you’ve been a mentor to me. I love your writing. I love your software. And you left a (virtual) paper trail of years’ worth of great posts that I can use as conversation starters. So I expect to be covering your stuff a lot. But it’s the good […]
This Hall of Fame Blog Post review begins my public stalking of Joel Spolsky. Among other things, Joel co-created FogBugz and Stack Overflow and writes Joel on Software. I’ll do a later post on Spolsky’s work and philosophies, this post will focus on a single excellent and ancient post from Spolsky. Post: FogBugz 4½ and […]