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by blasdel 5834 days ago
Based on a conversation I had with Jason Fried, I'd say neither.

They publish this stuff primarily just for the sake of writing it. It's an outlet for a company that purposefully avoids adding features to their products if at all possible. It's a deliberate practice to keep themselves creative — the megalomaniacal marketing is just added ego-gravy.