"Answer those “I wonder” questions- one of my favorite parts of working at 37signals is watching products develop every day in Campfire and on Basecamp. While doing that, people occasionally start a sentence with “I wonder…”. I get to move from wondering to knowing, and that’s loads of fun to do."
Wait, what? He's rifling through people's live projects all day? Does that strike anyone else as unsettling?
I think you're misreading that: 37Signals own products are developed with extensive use of Campfire/Basecamp, and while watching that conversation their own workers will say things like "I wonder if customers who pay us more money are less likely to send in support requests", and this is a question answerable with data, so yay for the data guy.
There is no way that 15 people found it useful and/or interesting. It's someone giving a brief resume and then, in a nutshell, saying "Gonna be doing stuff with data".
So my question stands. Do people just see 37 signals and data and imagine that it's interesting, so they up-arrow? Are there bots at work? Etc. I am deeply curious.
It seems like so many of the other articles about 37 signals go roughly "37S wrote this blog post that proves that they listen to no one other than themselves and are in the process of shooting themselves in the foot," so in that sense, it is worthwhile to HN to see that do have people who are listening to customers / drawing inference from data / &c.
Wait, what? He's rifling through people's live projects all day? Does that strike anyone else as unsettling?