{"id":600,"date":"2008-10-01T06:21:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T04:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2008-10-01T06:21:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T04:21:43","slug":"jim-coudal-the-three-question-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/01\/jim-coudal-the-three-question-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Coudal: The Three Question Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coudal.com\/\">Jim Coudal<\/a><\/cite> on evaluating whether or not to pursue a project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1. Will we be able to make money?<\/strong> We&#8217;re a business. We have mortgages and tuitions to pay. Plus, if we don&#8217;t make some cash once in a while, how will we feed our habit of continually screwing around?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. When we&#8217;re done, will we be proud of the work we&#8217;ve done?<\/strong> Slaving for months on a project only to not want to show it to anyone when you&#8217;re finished just plain sucks. No amount of money can make that feel better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Can we learn a little something new along the way?<\/strong> Executing the project has to make us smarter and help satisfy our curiosity, which we think is our greatest asset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Coudal on evaluating whether or not to pursue a project: 1. Will we be able to make money? We&#8217;re a business. We have mortgages and tuitions to pay. Plus, if we don&#8217;t make some cash once in a while, how will we feed our habit of continually screwing around? 2. When we&#8217;re done, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}