What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about family
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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12 dated positions, 2021 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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
- 13 months earlier
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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
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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
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordsGiving up on the total freedom of the unmoored life is a small price to pay for finding the deeper meaning in a tethered relationship with continuing a bloodline that's been drawn for hundreds of thousands of years before it came to you
↗The parental dead end of consent moralityworld.hey.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Our readingLack of unsupervised free play and independence is a key contributor to the rise in child fragility
Their wordsthe lack of unsupervised free play and independence as key contributors to the rise in child fragility
↗The 80s are still alive in Denmarkworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsHaving kids means making the most interesting people in the world. Not because toddlers or even teenagers are intellectual oracles - although life through their eyes is often surprising and occasionally even profound - but because your children will become the most interesting people to you.
- 6 months earlier
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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
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordschildren bring a deep, profound meaning to the life of those who have them
- 5 months earlier
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Our readingOverprotection harms childhood independence
Their wordsThe almost fully eroded sense of childhood independence, with its moderate dangers and teaching moments
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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
- 23 months earlier
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Their wordsThere's such a glow of accomplishment on the face of our boys when they push another boundary of independence
↗Where are all the kids in Americaworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsIf you approve of every choice your child is making at every turn, your grip is far too tight
↗Authoritarian hippie parentsworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece