{"id":720,"date":"2008-07-29T00:12:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T00:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2008-07-29T00:12:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T00:12:01","slug":"good-system-bad-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2008\/07\/29\/good-system-bad-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Good System, Bad System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I pass six Starbucks every morning on my walk to work. Just to clarify, that&#8217;s counting only the Starbucks that are actually on the <em>west<\/em> side of Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. I think there are some branches on the east side, but that side remains terra incognita for me; for most New Yorkers, micro-optimizing the walk to work is a matter of habit, and I have no reason to cross the street. For all I know, the other side of Eighth Avenue consists of nothing but pachinko parlors and flea circuses. Wouldn&#8217;t surprise me one bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From my latest Inc. article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/inc.html?11\">Good System, Bad System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS: I&#8217;ve got a new book out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1430209879?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=joelonsoftware&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1430209879\">More Joel on Software<\/a>&nbsp;is the second collection of articles from the archives of this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I pass six Starbucks every morning on my walk to work. Just to clarify, that&#8217;s counting only the Starbucks that are actually on the west side of&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2008\/07\/29\/good-system-bad-system\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Good System, Bad System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-bC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}