{"id":1142,"date":"2008-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/11\/30\/1080\/"},"modified":"2008-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"1080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/11\/30\/1080\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Half of &#8222;Artists Ship&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/artistsship.html\">The Other Half of &#8222;Artists Ship&#8220;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Programmers are unlike many types of workers in that the best ones actually prefer to work hard. This doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case in most types of work.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] If you have an idea for a new feature in the morning, you can write it and push it to the production servers before lunch. And when you can do that, you have more ideas.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] And just as the greatest danger of being hard to sell to is not that you overpay but that the best suppliers won&#8217;t even sell to you, the greatest danger of applying too many checks to your programmers is not that you&#8217;ll make them unproductive, but that good programmers won&#8217;t even want to work for you.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs&#8217;s famous maxim &#8222;artists ship&#8220; works both ways. Artists aren&#8217;t merely capable of shipping. They insist on it. So if you don&#8217;t let people ship, you won&#8217;t have any artists.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham \u2013 The Other Half of &#8222;Artists Ship&#8220;: &#8222;Programmers are unlike many types of workers in that the best ones actually prefer to work hard. This doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case in most types of work. [\u2026] If you have an idea for a new feature in the morning, you can write it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}