{"id":722549,"date":"2010-04-23T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2298-i-asked-him-if-he-would-come-up-with-a-few"},"modified":"2010-04-23T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:09:00","slug":"quote-i-asked-him-if-he-would-come-up-with-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/722549","title":{"rendered":"QUOTE: I asked him if he would come up with a few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked him if he would come up with a few options. And he said, &#8220;No. I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay me. And you don&#8217;t have to use the solution. If you want options, go talk to other people. But I&#8217;ll solve your problem for you the best way I know how. And you use it or not. That&#8217;s up to you. You&#8217;re the client. But you pay me.&#8221; And there was a clarity about the relationship that was refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/10\/04\/1993-steve-jobs-inverview-about-paul-rand\">Steve Jobs on working with designer Paul Rand on the NeXT logo<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=NjevPXVTUbU:Yea4saxEqRo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=NjevPXVTUbU:Yea4saxEqRo:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked him if he would come up with a few options. And he said, &#8220;No. I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay me. And you don&#8217;t have to use the solution. If you want options, go talk to other people. But I&#8217;ll solve your problem for you the best way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31Y1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}