Awesome. I just entered the Contest.

Dane Maxwell makes $500K a year from his bootstrapped Saas businesses. He also runs a program called: "The Foundation"

1) At my job we have a Word Template to fill in and send to our boss every Friday. At a previous job we just created an email answering: What did you work on this week? What are you planning on working on next week.

2) We had to submit these reports weekly.

I voted for you. Great Story.

These inc articles are just re-hashing stuff that you can read in "Founders at Work" or even Joel's blog. It's a bit disappointing actually.

Joel built his business by relating Microsoft gossip and telling programmers what they wanted to hear. It's a marketing blog. Now that his customers are businessmen, he's telling them what they want to hear, in a forum they're likely to read.

"Joel built his business by relating Microsoft gossip and telling programmers what they wanted to hear."

I'm pretty sure programmers don't want to hear "you need to be writing functional specs" [http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html], "you don't know enough about Unicode" [http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html], "if you don't 'get' pointers and recursion, you just ain't cut out to be a programmer" [http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.ht...], or "you should never scrap a working codebase and start all over" [http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html]

That's a pretty bold statement. Care to be more specific? "Might" doesn't cut it when you're publicly questioning somebody's credibility.

I'm not questioning anyone's credibility. I made a statement about the article's redundancy with a work that many HNers might read or have read. It's the same guy talking about the same topic, so he could reasonably be expected to say the same or very similar things.

You used the word "lifted". That's not an accusation of having a similar experience, that's an accusation of plagiarism.

Both articles are in Joel's voice and credited to Joel. You can't plagiarize yourself. I also used the word "might".

The Founders at Work interview is at http://www.foundersatwork.com/joel-spolksy.html . The Inc article is not a copy and paste, but it triggered the "seen this before" meter.

Plagiarizing himself? Huh? Is that even possible?

Yes, and it's a big fucking deal in academia -- you're bloating your publications / citations / reputation without actually contributing anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism#Self-plagiarism

From your linked article:

"Typically, self-plagiarism is only considered to be a serious ethical issue in settings where a publication is asserted to consist of new material, such as in academic publishing or educational assignments [13]. It does not apply (except in the legal sense) to public-interest texts, such as social, professional, and cultural opinions usually published in newspapers and magazines."

Maybe they are having technical issues?

Maybe they could tweet "having technical issues"