Amnesia

I only noticed it on the second glance, but that's Hacker News on the Dell laptop screen.

There's a couple interesting things here.<p>One is the obvious debate about timesheets, which most comments (so far) seem to focus on. Personally, I'm of Joel's school of thought on this one--my ex-co-founder insisted upon twisting FogBugz into a time-tracking tool, with all of the negative results that Joel predicts.<p>But for me, the more interesting point is Joel's apparent uncomfortability with his role as a pundit-- recently he's attacked Gladwell's use of anecdotes (while pointing out his own culpability in this department), and now he adds another entry to his ongoing file on what a clueless boss he sometimes is. Is this self-examination somehow related to his relationship with Atwood?

That poor guy. I sympathize; I've also had that experience of "I'd never say THAT!" and then someone shows me the quote.

Ha, it was video footage by Lerone Wilson that gave him away.<p>If I may, I'll plug the "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks With Geeks" documentary that Joel sells. It was much better than I expected.

anyone know of anything (web, software-based, whatever), that does timesheets really, ridiculously, well?<p>I feel like this space is underexploited- and I can't figure out if it's because every company's requirements are so different, that it become hard to create a good product, or if there's really no target market segment for this.<p>any thoughts?

since when did joel redesign his permalink pages? nice stuff.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Joel, who suggested making daily reports in Excel with time spent and time estimated in hours for every task? Looks like his amnesia stretches further than he thinks )

Is that the new Inspiron mini on the left, or his main screen that huge it's dwarfing a regular size laptop?

Delegation of responsibilities is difficult to do and even harder to stick with, but the rewards are worth it.

I read this article last night, then promptly took his "stop listening to me" advice. Unsubscribed from his RSS feed. See ya, Joel!