Why We Shut Newstilt Down

Re:Why We Shut Newstilt Down by loewenskind on Friday September 17, 2010 @05:11AM (#1700531)

Really? This information is over 100 years old in some cases. Here's a few links I found quickly. The first one has a lot of citations itself.

http://archives.igda.org/articles/erobinson_crunch.php

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5190.html

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/05/the_productivity_myth.html

It seems to me that it's come up several times that in your company you chose to follow what you thought was right instead of actually researching it. I hope you can correct this before future ventures.

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Re:Why We Shut Newstilt Down by pbiggar on Friday September 17, 2010 @07:40PM (#1703218)

I apologize for my flippant remark above. People aren't getting what I'm trying to say in this thread, and my remark reflected that.

The key part here is that it's not sustainable long term. It would be silly to optimize for long-term productivity with launch looming and features unimplemented.

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Re:Why We Shut Newstilt Down by loewenskind on Monday September 20, 2010 @03:33AM (#1708122)

According to the latest research I've seen, you start dropping productivity within a couple of weeks of over work. You were in this mode for months, no?

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Re:Why We Shut Newstilt Down by pbiggar on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @03:22PM (#1713762)

Personally yes, same for my co-founder. However, the employee under discussion had only just started.

(and a quick reminder here that we're not discussing the employee's passion for the startup--which everyone would agree was low--not his "goodness" as a human being or as a developer.)

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