David Heinemeier Hansson
17 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 14, 2020 by David Heinemeier Hansson · said 33 times in 6 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2023 16 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
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Apr 14, 2020 bearish
DHH: At Least Half of Unicorn Startups Are Morally Deplorable
“Our advocacy has been, don't fucking chase being a unicorn. Being a unicorn is a shitty place to be for most people most of the time, and the kinds of companies that come out of that that are unicorns, half or more of them are totally morally deplorable, and y…”
Apr 14, 2020 negative
DHH: Executive Micromanagement Stems From Managers Having Too Much Spare Time
“I think one of the key problems in a lot of companies is that executives simply have too much time, and they need to spend that time on something, and often that time is spent interfering with the people who actually do the work.”
Apr 14, 2020 bearish
DHH: Basecamp Intentionally Avoids Expanding to Hundreds of Employees
“I don't think we could do the things that we could do if we were 300 people or a thousand people, which is actually one of the main reasons we try not to get to that, Right? Like, I don't want to work at a place that has 300 people or a thousand people that I …”
Apr 14, 2020 negative
DHH: Information Delivery Should Be Asynchronous, Not in Meetings
“I think meetings suck for that purpose, and I think we're much better off when we use anything from email to Basecamp to other ways of asynchronous communication where someone can write something up, be considered In their thought, using full sentences, formin…”
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DHH: Meetings Are Only Useful for Four or Fewer People
“Meetings are great when you have two or three or four. That's probably the limit. If you get into five, it's already starting to be problematic. But let's just say four people who are very well informed about specific set of issues, and they're not on the same…”
Apr 14, 2020 positive
Apr 14, 2020 neutral
Apr 14, 2020 positive
DHH: Averages Three to Four Weekly Meetings Running Basecamp Asynchronously
“We have quite few regular meetings on any given week. I'd be surprised if I have more than three, maybe four. And in some weeks I have zero face-to-face or video to video conversations with people. The vast majority of the coordination work that we do, the exe…”
Apr 14, 2020 bullish
Jan 6, 2023 neutral
Jan 6, 2023 positive
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Sep 27, 2023 positive
Lanng: Tech companies should ban internal political discussions to focus on building
“And I like what David Heinemann says, like, he banned politics in, in, in in signals and I think that's absolutely right. I think we shouldn't sit around the table discussing all this stuff. We should just build something and make it work, and if we're allowin…”