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DHH vs Eric Ries at leanca.mp in London (vimeo.com)
9 points by bquinn on May 11, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


I'd like this discussion a lot more if it weren't framed as a clash of two sides. In a debate you're trying to win, but we're looking for the truth. Like Eric says in the video, there's a lot that they agree on. Sure, conflict is superficially interesting, but I think DHH plays it up too much and tried to put on a show. I wish he would have been a little less hostile, it was distracting.

To me, the most interesting part was at the end, when they started talking about whether finding a business model is simple or complicated. For some it is, for some it isn't. The discussion they have is enlightening.


The one argument that swayed me towards Eric Ries: "great and crap are subjective terms"


Great video. My summary, http://wp.me/priSp-2o .




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