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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
Joined April 2008

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  1. 3 hours ago

    You'd do well to ensure the air you're breathing is clean. You wouldn't drink muddy tap water, would you? Examine the air with a or Dylos meter. If you're above 10 ug/m3 regularly, get a MERV17+ air purifier (I like Alen BreathSmart and Oranji EJ).

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Breathing polluted air is linked to mental illness in children, dementia in adults, and now a general degradation in intelligence in new study.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    The reason you shouldn't use Rails is that the community is full of experienced, senior developers who might have families and therefore are EXPENSIVE. No, listen, you should pick whatever new thing those 20-year olds without demands are using 😂

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    7 hours ago

    One of the ingredients in Shopify’s success has been to completely ignore academic credentials in hiring. It’s a signal but just one of many and probably not in the top 3. Glad this is catching on.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Self-driving cars is the virtual reality of 1995. Just on the very cusp of rewriting society! Except 25 years later we are only sorta, kinda getting to the original promise, though the tech is still in beta and without mass adoption.

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  6. 22 hours ago

    If you're interested whether a future opening at Basecamp might be appealing to you, I'd suggest checking out our Basecamp Employee Handbook. It's open for all and pretty detailed.

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  7. 22 hours ago

    Basecamp isn't hiring very often, so rather than asking interested candidates to refresh an empty page for months (or years!), we thought why not just tell people who'd like to know when there's something to know? Sign up for the open positions email list.

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  8. 23 hours ago

    Companies would be better off with a staggered work schedule any way. Just ensure a few hours of overlap every day, then focus on giving more people the quiet, quality time at the hour that suits them 👍

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  9. 24 hours ago

    The banality of social media's destructive power: "The people who run Facebook and Google are good people, whose well-intentioned strategies have led to horrific unintended consequences",

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  10. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    Reminder: The consequences of family separation will far out-last this administration. Watch one family's reunion after months of separation.

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    Aug 24
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    Estimation requires knowing what you’re doing. That means you can estimate downhill but not uphill. You can, however, *budget* anywhere. That is, set a maximum amount of time you’re willing to spend. Budgeting != estimating.

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    Aug 23

    Microsoft bug testers unionized, then they were dismissed

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  14. Aug 24

    As long as you simply wrap your abusive, controlling behavior in phrases like “I’m doing this for your own good” and “you will thank me when you’re older”, then everything is going to be A-OK and your kids will be grateful for your despotic interventions.

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  15. Aug 24

    Installing malware on kid’s devices, subjecting them to random spot checks, and generally treating them as your captive subjects is sure to foster a warm, loving, and enduring relationship. Totally worth the tiny risk of serendipitously catching them in some terrible act!

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  16. Aug 24

    Nothing teaches kids the futility of privacy like having the main authority figures in their lives, parents, subject them to Orwellian surveillance of location and communication. What a great way to raise a pliant populace for the dystopia of tomorrow!

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  17. Aug 24

    What a surprise. Disgusting apps that encourage parents to spy on their kids without consent also suck at security.

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    Aug 24

    Facebook is now trying to get peoples' financial information directly from banks. We agree with the take of that "concentrated tech power is moving us towards a dystopian social credit scoring system." Banks should say no thank you.

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    in 2011, The Guardian revealed a $200 million program of "military sock puppet software" that used "fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda". $200 million dollars is a lot of money! What's the status on this? Does anyone care?

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