What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about politics
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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25 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 wordsThe world would be so fucking boring if we constantly sought 100% compatibility in our opinions and in our politics. And when it comes to my code generator, which is what Claude is, I don't need it to share all my politics.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 30th of 41 in this recording
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Their wordsSo I actually think liberals and conservatives should work together. I think the country would be much worse off if there's a complete separation between the tribes, and then there can't be any overlap or interaction. And I think that mingling is so much easier to do if you just don't focus on your differences all the time. Focus on what you like together.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 38th of 41 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAnd it was the best money we've ever spent on anything related to culture, maybe anything at all. Of all the things that I bought, that peace of mind we bought with those payouts was just priceless.
↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 15th of 27 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsthe future progress and prosperity of the country depends on rejecting this zero-sum delusional dogma
↗Denmark desperately needs more inequalityworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 6 months earlier
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Our readingMost people reject divisive rhetoric
Their wordsThousands of people have taken to X and elsewhere to reject this nonsense
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsNational pride is a cornerstone of building a high-trust society
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsThe progressive Nirvana of Denmark is built on a highly conservative set of norms and traditions
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsBeing professionally offended by every little thing, seeing micro-aggressions around every corner, and rendering the entire world through a narrow oppressed/oppressor lens is back to the niche disposition once more
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsI'd much rather live in a country that embraces everyone's right to BE FULL OF SHIT than one that pretends it can declare a priori what's true and what's false or one that makes false equivalences between violence and speech
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsthey do not have the right to prevent a business from carrying out its normal course of commerce over a disagreement in politics
- 12 months earlier
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Our readingProgressive political thinking has neglected the value of persuading others that one is right
Their wordsWe have to stand up to the ideological golems in order to rescue our political discourse
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsThe long-term benefits of that new etiquette are clear now that we've had to live with the results for a while
↗Meta goes no politics at work (and nobody cares)world.hey.com
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsPicking a permanent side in some grand ideological struggle - with its prepackaged set of principles and values, enemies and heroes - might bring psychological comfort in the short term, but it'll erode the capacity for intellectual honesty in the long term
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsAnd I think that's why the general public have begun to just ignore this nonsense
↗May Shopify's immunity spread to the whole herdworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsif service companies are pushed to vet all customers for political beliefs, the day may soon come where service is denied them because of their views
↗May Shopify's immunity spread to the whole herdworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsTwitter left to its current devices and management is likely to continue on the path it's been on. More bans, more suppression, more policing of thought divergent from The Consensus Opinion.
↗Either/or with Mr Spacemanworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThat we're hard-wired to be of weak principles and strong tribal allegiance
- 1 day earlier
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Their wordsI don't believe that this is what most programmers or most companies ultimately want
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThat forcing vaccines upon truckers needing to cross the border for work is a gross overreach of state power, and utterly unwarranted by the state of the pandemic
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Their wordsA healthy democracy will engage with protesters to hear their claims and consider their voice within the guardrails of peaceful expression
- 4 days earlier
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Their wordspoliticizing our basic platforms for charity or finance is a terrible idea
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsit's worth taking the effort not to know, and if you do, to forget
- 2 weeks earlier
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Our readingMonopoly power can capture politics
Their wordsEventually it's not just about the capture of economics, but soon too the capture of politics
↗Apple turns the legislative contempt up to 11world.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Our readingThe faith in a utopian outcome of a revolution is often based on faith rather than a clear plan
Their wordsThe faith in a paradisiacal outcome of a (violent) revolution is just that: faith
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsI think it's become ever more stressful, unnerving, and counterproductive
↗Basecamp's new etiquette regarding societal politics at workworld.hey.com