Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting.
This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.
> Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting.
As a pretty hands on person (I do woodcarving, woodturning, and am taking blacksmithing lessons right now), I actually enjoy these sorts of digressions / riffs.
Wood and software have a surprising number of parallels. I like to tell people not in the industry that software people today are the carpenters and craftsmen of the 1900s.
Point that he's trying to make is that you can still make money the traditional way by charging customers for wood figures as 37s does, instead of going down the more common path nowadays of etching adverts into them
Reminds me of the joke about the two women eating in a restaurant where the one complains about how terrible the food is there, and the other agrees and says, and what little portions.
Don't talk bad about about people whom's hobbies you know.
This article actually seems quite lame, like it's trying too hard to find a way to fit wood-carving with some sort of positive message about 37-signals, and ends up with some sort of religious parable where you almost expect DHH to come in near the end and turn water to wine or walk on water.