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@dhh

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. Pinned Tweet
    4 Nov 2015

    RECONSIDER : (had to cancel my appearance, but you still deserve the talk!)

  2. 29 minutes ago
    “So don’t tell me that there’s something uniquely demanding about building yet another fucking startup that dwarfs the accomplishments of The Origin of Species or winning five championship rings. It’s bullshit. Extractive, counterproductive bullshit peddled by people who either need a narrative to explain their personal sacrifices and regrets or who are in a…” from “Trickle-down workaholism in startups” by DHH.
  3. 6 hours ago
    Replying to

    Speaking of working smarter, having prodigious output, and being the best, read about Darwin's exemplary routine.

  4. 6 hours ago
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  5. 6 hours ago
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    Even the mighty Kobe Bryant limits his training to just six, smart hours per day during the off season.

  6. 6 hours ago
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    Further more, great athletes understand the need to recuperate. Training smarter, sleeping more.

  7. 6 hours ago

    Entrepreneurs that delude themselves to be athletes, confusing matters of the mind with matters of muscles 🙄

  8. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    Probe effects of testing? Create less harmful assessments? Nah - just train kids to cope w/ tests via "mindfulness":

  9. 12 hours ago
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    Only thing I'd add to Miguel's observation is that it can further be improved: Don't raise. Period. RECONSIDER:

  10. 12 hours ago

    If you're not working yourself to the bone to 100x the money of venture capital, you're not an entrepreneur, you're a tourist. Despicable.

  11. Retweeted
    May 28

    11-year-old mom forced to marry her rapist by Sharia court in Afghanistan—sorry, I mean Christian church in Florida

  12. Retweeted
    May 28
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    That's ~50 KWh per transaction, which is like $6 at residential prices.

  13. Retweeted
    May 28

    Still amazed that Bitcoin takes roughly the same amount of power needed to run AWS's us-east-1 to handle <4 transactions per second.

  14. Retweeted
    May 27

    When Canadians fight on Twitter.

  15. Retweeted
    May 26

    Lord, grant me the confidence of a Hacker News commenter criticizing an article they haven't read

  16. Retweeted
    May 28

    Remember in the 90s to get online you had to murder a robot each time, and it would scream and scream until its death powered your internet

  17. Retweeted
    May 26

    GOOGLE: we made a car that drives itself & mapped the planet in 3D GOVT: tell us how much you pay your female employees GOOGLE: impossible

  18. May 28
    Replying to

    Oh it's just a "cultural difference". Like cat calling? Or groping on the train? NO PROBLEM THEN.

  19. May 28
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    "Ah, come on. It's just a touch. Why don't you just smile? We are just being friendly here. Don't be so uptight". Remind you of anything?

  20. May 28
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    Finally, strangers by definition don't know your kids. Don't know how they'll react to "friendly" touch. Gross violation to proceed anyway.

  21. May 28

    Read on how the ineptitude of the democrats are robbing the US of the proper opposition so dearly needed.

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