How Basecamp Blew Up
I&#x27;m among those with mixed feelings.<p>- list of funny names that is kept in some persistent form and circulates the company with full acknowledgment of the head people: Childish and extremely unprofessional, but still a typical mistake rather than a colossal disaster;<p>- politics and racism issue: looks like typical misunderstanding but on a very fragile subjects. Very easy to get into drama scenarios with this mix. Very easy to mishandle it. But it still seems that this topic is not normal workplace topic. If there is a serious issue in that matter, you go to some authorities. If you did not address it officially and decided to attack the head people - sorry, it&#x27;s not the way. That might suggest that there was no real issue as there were no serious actions;<p>- policy change public announcement first then to your team: Yeah that&#x27;s a big mistake, something that probably their books wouldn&#x27;t even advise. Head people did not recognise  that this is not the way to manage fragile topics.<p>Is DHH and Jason all evil?<p>- These are the same guys that give equal pay regardless of remote worker location.<p>- They were always believing in remote work, which is bigger problem for company and it&#x27;s more of a benefit for the 
employees<p>- Many times were vocal about issues with big companies, where many others did not have enough courage to do the same<p>- Creators of a breakthrough tech stack and tremendous contributions to open-source<p>- Always happily sharing their knowledge<p>They made a mistake. But they don&#x27;t seem to be bad guys here overall.<p>In this context, the article seems to be written by someone who had some personal issues with the guys and he found a way to &quot;show&#x27;em all&quot;. Even if it tells his version of the story, to me it&#x27;s at least unfair and biased.