Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo

I can't tell if he's mocking the Garlinghouse 'peanut butter memo', or a general big-conglomerate or old-thinking atmosphere, or even himself as part of some long-running inside joke. And the ambiguity makes it that much better.

I just hope Yahoo can soon get down to brass tacks.

brilliant resignation letter! . . . though I think he forgot to mention the part where yahoo paid him $35MM for his sheet-tin skills, something that probably made it a little easier for him to be able to write a resignation letter like that and not worry about it getting out.

I loved the letter, but I can't vote up a submission from a blog post that was 90% Valleywag copy plus one short added paragraph.

Just seems a little full of himself to me. Dude, you started a photo-sharing site. You didn't invent internal combustion.

He co-founded the BEST photo-sharing site, back when people didn't even realize the uses of photo-sharing online.

While some of what they did was RPRT, I give them a lot of credit for scrapping the game they were originally working on when they realized Flickr was Something People Wanted. They also scaled Flickr fantastically when it grew to enormous proportions, which I think deserves kudos as well.