What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about America
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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22 dated positions, 2021 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
The shading behind a date shows how recently it was said: full within a month, empty after three years.
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Their wordsEurope needs to shamelessly copy this aspect of the American ethos
↗Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can liveworld.hey.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsAmerica is simply a vastly richer country, and that matters when it comes to everything from commercial dominance to military power
↗Europe is weak and delusional (but not doomed)world.hey.com
- 4 months earlier
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Our readingAmerica's power is not collapsing
Their wordsIt feels like we're finally emerging from this constant 90s Seattle drizzle to sunny 80s LA vibes in America
↗It's beginning to feel like the 80s in America againworld.hey.com
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAmericans fundamentally believe this. They believe the hype, so they make it come to fruition
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsall American administrations have the power to disconnect any individual, company, or foreign government from digital infrastructure provided by American Big Tech
↗Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereigntyworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe continent is hopelessly dependent on American Big Tech for even the most basic of digital infrastructure
↗Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereigntyworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsI find this explanation is proving to be a bit too easy of a scapegoat for all the ills plaguing American youth
↗The 80s are still alive in Denmarkworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsNo, America isn't in a hot war with the Axis powers, but for the sake of the West, it damn well better be prepared for one in the future
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsmy hope is that Europe, like usual, is merely a few years behind the American revival in optimism
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Their wordsEurope also lacks the ability to change course quite like the Americans
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordsWhile America is recovering from the authoritarian grip on free speech in terms of both social media policies and broader social consequences
↗The social media censorship era is over (for now)world.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Our readingModern parenting in America is failing kids
Their wordsWhat American parents have been doing for the last twenty-plus years is so resoundingly not working
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsThe original American promise that this is a country where you can make it regardless of where you came from has always been challenged in practice, but it's a beautiful ideal, and it'll shine just a little brighter now that the Supreme Court has dismantled one of the few remaining systemic impediments to its realization
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsthe empire might still come tumbling down in tumultuous ways
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsAmericans still support equality of opportunity, and they still reject equality of outcomes
↗The waning days of DEI's dominanceworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsBecause Covid in America remains a political struggle rather than a medical one, of course
↗Why is Spotify still linking to the CDC?world.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Our readingAmerican companies will never be able to resist the demands of American intelligence services
Their wordsAmerican companies will never be able to resist the demands of American intelligence services
↗American data spies will never care where the servers areworld.hey.com
- 3 months earlier
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Our readingAmerica can turn things around
Their wordsAmerica isn't destined to head off the cliff. It can turn things around.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsFreedoms that have been rapidly disappearing for many American kids
↗Where are all the kids in Americaworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsMillions of Americans are going to be subject to malware if the iPhone must work like the Mac?
↗Apple turns the legislative contempt up to 11world.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Our readingThe evil now running wild in America did not begin with Trump and has been building for decades
Their wordsthe general thesis of Trump as the root cause has been mortally wounded by the year since he left office
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsOpposition to big tech's monopoly abuses is one of the very few truly bipartisan issues in Washington these days
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