causal

Small surface area invites bigger mobs

Basecamp suffered proportionally larger attrition (about 30% versus Coinbase's roughly 5%) partly because its small team-page surface area—publicly listing every employee's name and Twitter handle—made it easy to direct a shaming mob at identifiable individuals.

causalpending

Speaker

Jason Fried

Evidence Quote

it was very easy to throw a mob at that small degree of surface area and literally shame the hell out of people

Source

253 - Corporate CourageMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:24:11 AM

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