My friend Isaac turned me onto a guy’s blog (Joel on Software) He’s got a great article there, called “Hitting The High Notes“, which he presents some great ideas on what really makes a software company successful—hiring the best designers or programmers. No brainer, right? Well it seems that while most companies are down-sizing and trying to get the most with least expenditure, they’re missing the boat altogether.

He cites successful examples, gives some good raw data and statistics, and and gives a few good illustrations, too. Heck, he makes me wanna work for him—just in his criticism of Wal*Mart alone sold me.

In a related topic of excellence verses just getting crap out as fast as you can without serious overhead—I’ve got this newer Curtis portable CD player for my desk that I bought at Target. I didn’t wanna buy anything super expensive, but for $70 you’d think it’d last a while, right? There’s something seriously screwed up with the LED display. On the track number display, the furthest left | line doesn’t show up anymore. And today? My clock is displaying in what appears to be 24-hour format… even if I didn’t change it to that display. I can’t figure it out. I didn’t do anything to it and it’s showing 24-hour formatted time. Cheap POS.

It just underscores why it pays off to build good stuff, period.

July 26, 2005, 8:31 am

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