A Pernicious Lack of Perspective
It is clear that Mr. Fried has not had exposure to all of these varied “real reasons” for hiring. Mr. Fried has not seen 100′s of companies in different stages of growth with different risk/opportunity sets. The more you read from Mr. Fried and the 37Signals cohort, the more you start to feel that every article should be sub-titled:
Advice On How To Run Our(37Signals) Business.
Or:
What We’ve Learned On How One Should Run Our(37Signals) Business.
It’s fine to write up all these things as anecdotes or amusing stories if you have an audience for it, but why package this Pernicious Lack of Perspective (PLP) as advice?
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Passionate (sometimes too much) analysis of why 37signals' publications are not the ultimate source of wisdom.
