Neuroplasticity will save us all
“...they ran right into the fucking wall of the future.”
The Basecamp controversy has been covered at length. The Verge had some of the better coverage here, here, and here.
tl;dr the software company’s highly-opinionated cofounders made a rule that political chatter within the office was a no-no
On the Techmeme Ride Home, Brian McCollough and Chris Messina discussed the key reason why, despite the fact that Basecamp is a relatively small team and small company, this event attracted such attention.
The key clip happens from 52:45 to 55:00:
Chris: "...and what DHH and Jason did for 15, 20 years was they defined a certain way of working in opposition to something else, and now they have become the incumbents."
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“…the internet never turns off. And so, it's like the idea that you can separate yourself from yourself in order to usually do the fucking job isn't what a younger generation I think is up for anymore. They look at us or they look at like their parents, and they're like, ‘You guys are all fucked up. You guys can't talk about your feelings. You guys don't know what's going on. You guys have put all this stress on us. You guys are super stressed out. Why do you want us to emulate you?’
“And so that's the blindness and it’s like I pinned to tweet again because like, ‘Neuroplasticity will save us all.’ The only thing that will save like old people from like becoming old is by maintaining the child's mind and that isn't what happened here. Like, DHS, and like Jason just like took that, you know, bold, aggressive stance with they, you know, is their signature thing, and they ran right into the fucking wall of the future, and it's like it's not going to work anymore.”