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Re:The 37signals Employee Handbook by sparklingmango on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:29PM (#39058194)
Additionally, DHH somewhat regularly blogs about political things. While I understand it's his "personal" blog, can you really have a personal blog separate from work when you're the CTO of the company and the creator of Rails?
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Re:The 37signals Employee Handbook by ghaff on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:46PM (#39058512)
It's complicated if you have personal but identified channels and are also a somewhat public figure in the context of various communities, including companies and tech projects.

I guess my take is that if you want to have a truly personal blog or social media channels, it should be as anonymized as possible. (Which has pros and cons.) Certainly, there are a ton of things I wouldn't write on a public channel even if I weren't technically violating any company policy because they would bite me.

When I was an analyst, I would absolutely not write anything about a CxO that differed from what I would put in a research report.

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Re:The 37signals Employee Handbook by jen20 on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:47PM (#39058536)
I don't see why not - and notably they don't seem to attempt to ban other employees from having personal blogs or engaging in activism outside the workplace either.
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