{"id":15,"date":"2008-06-18T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifewithouttelevision.wordpress.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-06-18T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:00:04","slug":"dont-be-ordinary-lessons-from-yahoo-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2008\/06\/dont-be-ordinary-lessons-from-yahoo-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be ordinary: lessons from Yahoo! resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/5017424\/stewart-butterfields-bizarre-resignation-letter-to-yahoo\">Stewart Butterfield&#8217;s resignation letter<\/a> on Valleywag.<\/p>\n<p>OK? Now read the comments.<\/p>\n<p>No real focus on the story, just he&#8217;s crazy, he&#8217;s on drugs, and above all he&#8217;s not funny.<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time anyone agreed on what was funny? &#8220;It&#8217;s not funny&#8221; might be an opening sentence but by itself it&#8217;s not an argument for anything other than your own ego.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no idea what this letter is all about but that doesn&#8217;t matter to me. What I love is that this guy seems to be the kind of guy who can&#8217;t do anything the way you&#8217;re <em>supposed<\/em> to do it. Maybe that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s so successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go read Stewart Butterfield&#8217;s resignation letter on Valleywag. OK? Now read the comments. No real focus on the story, just he&#8217;s crazy, he&#8217;s on drugs, and above all he&#8217;s not funny. When was the last time anyone agreed on what was funny? &#8220;It&#8217;s not funny&#8221; might be an opening sentence but by itself it&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}