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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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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!)

    72 replies 652 retweets 1,077 likes
  2. 29 minutes ago

    “Trickle-down workaholism in startups”,

    “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 replies 43 retweets 80 likes
  3. 6 hours ago
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    Speaking of working smarter, having prodigious output, and being the best, read about Darwin's exemplary routine.

    3 replies 27 retweets 80 likes
  4. 6 hours ago
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    Fire the workaholics [2008]

    4 replies 57 retweets 144 likes
  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.

    2 replies 9 retweets 48 likes
  6. 6 hours ago
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    Further more, great athletes understand the need to recuperate. Training smarter, sleeping more.

    2 replies 34 retweets 84 likes
  7. 6 hours ago

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

    "Work smarter, not harder" said Kobe Bryant and Usain Bolt, never.
    20 replies 99 retweets 289 likes
  8. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

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

    10 replies 96 retweets 156 likes
  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:

    1 reply 24 retweets 134 likes
  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.

    16 replies 169 retweets 500 likes
  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

    366 replies 13,266 retweets 9,544 likes
  12. Retweeted
    May 28
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    That's ~50 KWh per transaction, which is like $6 at residential prices.

    7 replies 66 retweets 104 likes
  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.

    17 replies 402 retweets 612 likes
  14. Retweeted
    May 27

    When Canadians fight on Twitter.

    1,732 replies 102,911 retweets 267,336 likes
  15. Retweeted
    May 26

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

    19 replies 651 retweets 2,383 likes
  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

    185 replies 13,622 retweets 32,551 likes
  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

    126 replies 10,591 retweets 13,273 likes
  18. May 28
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    Oh it's just a "cultural difference". Like cat calling? Or groping on the train? NO PROBLEM THEN.

    5 replies 3 retweets 29 likes
  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?

    3 replies 4 retweets 30 likes
  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.

    4 replies 4 retweets 21 likes
  21. May 28

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

    1 reply 24 retweets 39 likes

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