Intellectual Ore

After work today, Del and I paid a visit to Joel and friends over at Fog Creek Software.  I didn’t bring a camera, but I really like their office.  It’s a bit dingy from the outside, but the inside is new, modern, and downright sexy; it’s hard not to like a place with a community lunch table, fish tank, Aerons, and walls lined with shelf after shelf of high-quality technical books.  Fog Creek is a place that would make me enjoy coming to work.  In stark contrast to the high-stress “grind it out” environment of finance, I felt like a piece of the west coast “chill” culture had been transplanted to NYC.  I really enjoyed going, and with the new office, things should be even better next year; Mark (Joel’s co-founder) was pretty excited about the blueprints.