What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about product management
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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8 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 wordsThere is some great irony in the fact that much of our current work getting the best out of agents sits in product management, project management, and QA.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe reason I say that is there's a lot of programmers who are not very good product managers. Software is product management. What should it do? Who should it do it for? How should it do it? How should it look? What are our priorities? What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all programmers.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 13th of 41 in this recording
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsDesigners at 37 Signals are not just here to make a spec look pretty. They're here to find what the spec should be. They're product managers in many ways.
↗DHH’s new way of writing codeyoutube.com 4th of 21 in this recording
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsIf you follow these bad ideas to their logical conclusion, you end up with worse than useless products
↗Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoidworld.hey.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsSpending the majority of our time pushing the products forward with our direct work on design, programming, copywriting, or whatever
- 2 months earlier
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Our readingAngry customers provide valuable feedback
Their wordsEvery loud, angry customer represents at least a dozen silent ones you lost to the same issues
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsyou needed someone with a product vision of what the customer wanted to have a shot at recovery
↗Apple fired 4,100 when Steve Jobs returned in 1997world.hey.com
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsThis is the blessing in terms of almost automatic product management that comes for free when you're building for yourself. Because the list of priorities is just very clear.