February 26, 2006

Ben Hammersley : "Ship or comment - pick one."

Through a lens sharply

I’m beginning to remember the primacy of just creating stuff. It’s all got a bit too meta around here lately. Ship or comment - pick one.

I love Ben's point regarding being too "Meta". Good advice, and something I personally need to both listen to and act upon.

Directly extending this comment, "Ship or comment - pick one." adds a nice sense of immediatte action; something I plan to directly react to in the "good reaction" sense.

Speaking of which,

If you want to reach both audiences before your competition does, you'll avoid indulging in religious debates and ship something.

Two different people. Two different subjects. The same point.

Whether coming from Don, or from Ben, "pick one" and get on with it.

That's my plan anyway, although I don't see the need to pick one over the other... They're both industry icons in whom both know a great deal in regards to the subject matter they specialize in. With this in mind, and both with a history of "shipping" stuff, its interesting to note that they both seem to recognize that theres two types of meta in the software industry:

* chatter
* data

Sam Ruby - Intertwingly:

It’s just data.

I wonder which 'meta' Sam (another proven "shipper") thinks matters most?