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David Heinemeier Hansson

What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about family

@dhh · 154 positions · 10 changes of mind

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  1. Our readingCreating life with another human you love is the peak experience of being on the planet.

    Their wordsI'm excited about a lot of things. I love building things, and I love hobbies, and I love all sorts of stuff. But creating life with another human that you love is literally the peak experience of being on the planet.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 28th of 41 in this recording

    Interesting
  2. 13 months earlier

  3. Our readingParents have an obligation to talk up having children, because the case against is made a thousand times louder than the case for.

    Their wordsthose of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing to get married and to have children have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would've seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental of that.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 35th of 36 in this recording

    Interesting

  5. Our readingFraming childcare as unpaid labour, and a mother who stays home as a failure of feminist ambition, is a complete dead end.

    Their wordsBut there's something that's just not right in the analysis that children are a burden and that if woman chooses to stay at home with the kids, that that some sort of failure mode of feminist ambition. I think that's actually a complete dead end.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 37th of 36 in this recording

    ambition

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  6. 10 months earlier

  7. Our readingParents have an obligation to talk up having children, because the case against is made a thousand times louder than the case for.

    Their wordsI think we need to correct that ratio somewhat by some testimony of just how God damn amazing it is to literally create life

    ↗DHH Is Right About Everythingyoutube.com 7th of 8 in this recording

    Interesting