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Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), NYT Best-selling author of REWORK and REMOTE, and Le Mans class-winning racing driver.

Chicago, USA
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  1. 18 hours ago

    "It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work" is just three weeks from US publication. Pre-orders have been so good that Amazon is now offering in in hardcover for 35% off! Would mean a lot to me if you'd pre-order 🙏❤️ (there's a Kindle + Audible version too)

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  2. 22 hours ago

    Speaking of fun cryptocurrency dynamics: You raise a bunch of Ether through an ICO, but then that "currency" crashes, now you have to sell even more Ether to pay for salaries and expenses (because nobody wants to be paid in that shit), leading to faster collapse.

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  3. 22 hours ago

    "We really would like some exposure to all this gambling that's going on in Vegas, but would must definitely prefer never having to actually set foot in such a wretched place". Institutional investors on Bitcoin (via ).

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    Sep 9

    Research from Stanford proves that work-from-home is now the world's smartest management strategy.

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    Sep 9

    This is art

    Like 1/3rd of my Airbnb's binder are instructions on how the Echo works and what specific words control which specific lights and exhortations to please not use the actual, physical light switches.
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  6. Sep 9

    Maybe this is why nobody ever gets to inbox zero. Starring at Gmail’s existential proclamation is just too much truth to bear on a regular basis.

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    Sep 8

    People say “well what did people do before vaccines/antibiotics/pasteurisation?” as if that’s an argument for going natural. They died, Carol. A lot of people died.

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  8. Sep 8

    “Bitcoin is down 57% in 2018 so far, ether is down 67%, bitcoin cash (BCH) is down 80%, stellar lumens (XLM) is down 60%, and ripple (XRP) is down an eye-popping 87%”.

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  9. Sep 8

    Musk on Rogan. It's mesmerizing. There's something irresistible about how a guy at that level can be this weird, unique, interesting, alternatively banal and utterly deep.

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  10. Sep 8

    TV has been letting me down a lot down a lot lately. But you're not going to let me down Season Five of BoJack Horseman, are you? You're going to be better, right? You're going to make all the bad TV wish it was never aired, yeah? Tell me it's so.

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    Sep 8

    "When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval." Epictetus

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    Sep 7

    “Master/slave” isn’t even a good metaphor, unless I’m missing the historical example where slaves lived a life identical to their master’s with sub-second delays just in case one of them suddenly needed to step in and replace the master if he died...

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    Sep 6

    5) It's profoundly weird that making a profit is now seen as an unorthodox business maneuver. outlines many of the advantages (2017). This should not be the ~*galaxy brain*~ take!

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    Sep 6

    2) "Reconsider" (2015). 's humble claim is that you should think carefully about what you want and why you want it. Most founders want control over their lives and their work. The startup playbook gives you the opposite, with a cultish veneer.

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    Sep 8

    I’ve asked my teams to remove any usage of Master/Slave in our docs and apis of Umbraco. Never thought about the terms because it’s “always been like that” in IT. Thanks for raising awareness 👏

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    Sep 7

    What was Nike thinking.

    Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after the company unveiled its Kaepernick campaign
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    Sep 6

    Just published a new episode of Design Decisions on our Getting Real YouTube Channel. In this episode I pick a specific feature in Basecamp 3 and trace it all the way back to it’s genesis. What’s it for? Why’s it there? How’d it happen? Watch —>

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  18. Sep 7

    It was a long road for me to come to the same conclusion in the Rails community 😂. Thank you for listening. It may seem like a waste of time right now, but I think long term the investment will be worth it.

    For me to reconsider, the turning point was tweets that started to make me feel like Redis users could be affected by my choices. This triggered the pool, and indeed the numbers are quite clear. I'll detail in the next days how I'll proceed.
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    Sep 7

    Ok, with these numbers I think I'll proceed with the change, regardless of the problems it may create and my personal opinion. If it is a problem for half the Redis community, is a problem for me, regardless of all the other considerations.

    I'm a user of Redis, and I understand that. 1) Twitter pools are anonymous. 2) Changing the API / internals may create issues/compatibility problems for some time. I think that you should:
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  20. Sep 7

    Also, I know Twitter is a supercharged environment for carefully discussing these things. Happy to switch to email. Again, I recognize the impulse to digging in when attacked in public. So I have buckets of sympathy for that as a first reaction 😄

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