合同会社設立308日目、朝

港区は晴れ。朝から気温が高くなっている。
日曜日。
ヤフーからクレイグズリストに行ったジェレミイ・ザウドニイ氏のブログが興味深い。

• Two weeks into my new job at craigslist... (by Jeremy Zawodny) (August 02, 2008 09:08 AM Posted by jzawodn)

In two weeks, I've only had one experience that I would come close to classifying as a "meeting." There really aren't conference rooms (yay!) but it did involve a whiteboard. However, unlike meetings I'm used to, it involved only the most essential people, had a clearly defined goal, and was very useful to me.
The engineering team has a great old-school Perl and Unix mentality (and sense of humor) to it that I really dig. Our private IRC channel is filled with a mix of useful information sharing and old fashioned joking, complaining, and ranting. It reminds me a lot of Yahoo in the 1999-2000 time frame.

会議室がないとか、社内でユーモアあふれるやりとりが絶え間なく起きているとか、これはうまく行っているスタートアップの風景として、お決まりなのだろうか。ヤフーやグーグルは広大な敷地にたくさんの社員を集めているけれど、じっさいこういったおまけはついているのかはわからない。

Unlike Yahoo, craigslist has an abundance of nearby eating establishments within very short walking distance. I suspect that it'll take months of time before I've sampled what's nearby.

サン・フランシスコの街に集まり、交流する若い人たちが求めているものはこれかもしれない。
ちなみに、NYタイムズのジョン・マーコフ記者が興味深い風景を書いている。

• A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog (May 31, 2008, 11:22 pm By John Markoff)

For a half-decade, the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times had a remarkable resource. Just five floors above us were the offices of Microsoft’s Bay Area Research Center and more specifically, Gordon Bell and Jim Gray, two of the world’s legendary computer scientists. I would have coffee with Jim on occasion, and from time to time, we would head down the alleyway to have lunch at Yank Sing, the local dim sum restaurant.

こんな風景がしばらくぶりに、復活しようとしている。そんな気がした。