A Solid Gold Trashcan

One company's story. A nostalgic look back at the heyday of the dot com bubble. Or maybe things we can learn from it. One of my favorite parts:

"One time, a group of us were standing around in the atrium of ArsDigita HQ, and Philip was holding court. (As you may know, Philip is a talented public speaker with an exceptional ability to entertain an audience.) This time, Philip was describing how cool it would be to have a koi pond suspended from the ceiling of the atrium, so you could see the fish swimming from beneath and from all sides. Brian Stein replied, "You know what would be even better? A solid-gold trash can, burning cash 24/7." I don't think we would have laughed so long and hard if Brian had not struck a chord."

http://michael.yoon.org/arsdigita
http://www.waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
http://eveander.com/arsdigita-history