The Aarthi and Sriram Show

EP 71 - David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on Software Craft, Flow, Winning Le Mans and Fighting Wokeness

Episode Notes

Creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Basecamp & HEY) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) joins Sriram and Aarthi.

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Show notes:

(0:00) Intro

(5:07) Why Sriram used to hate DHH

(13:09) Why DHH avoided VC money

(17:54) Demystify wealth online

(23:08) DHH’s issues with woke culture

(38:15) Craft and beauty

(45:51) Learnings from racing cars

(54:37) DHH’s work setup

(55:51) Le Mans and racing

(1:02:45) Apple’s mistake could mirror Google and Microsoft

(1:09:00) The Denmark fairytale

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