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Founder of a marketplace and software company - redefining connections and shopping experiences

[Philosophy Nerd @_philosophynerd]

This guy will cure your laziness:

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family, getting married and having kids.

X limits video length to 6 hours. So this full convo doesn't fit (by a few minutes). So, the first 6 hours are here on X. The full version is up everywhere else (see comment).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:21 - Introduction
2:32 - Programming - early days
19:57 - JavaScript
30:16 - Google Chrome and DOJ
38:03 - Ruby programming language
45:14 - Beautiful code
1:03:15 - Metaprogramming
1:06:36 - Dynamic typing
1:13:55 - Scaling
1:26:47 - Future of programming
1:44:18 - Future of AI
1:50:13 - Vibe coding
1:58:45 - Rails manifesto: Principles of a great programming language
2:23:11 - Why managers are useless
2:32:32 - Small teams
2:38:39 - Jeff Bezos
2:53:57 - Why meetings are toxic
3:01:43 - Case against retirement
3:09:00 - Hard work
3:14:38 - Why we left the cloud
3:17:48 - AWS
3:27:07 - Owning your own servers
3:33:19 - Elon Musk
3:43:01 - Apple
3:54:48 - Tim Sweeney
4:06:22 - Fatherhood
4:32:04 - Racing
4:59:08 - Cars
5:04:26 - Programming setup
5:19:35 - Programming language for beginners
5:32:53 - Open source
5:41:46 - WordPress drama
5:53:03 - Money and happiness
6:01:56 - Hope

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

There is a vote going on right now in Maine where the state’s residents are voting to do a hostile takeover of their two largest electric companies.

Out of a job would be the existing for-profit companies. In its place would be a non-profit, community owned alternative that would operate the electricity grid for the state. If the vote succeeds, the state will need to borrow billions to buy out the existing owners.

Is this an example of misguided socialism or is this extreme capitalism? The proponents are offering cheaper prices and better service if the buyout happens.

Whatever the outcome, this is another step in the right direction: educating consumers to take control of their energy needs.

America’s energy infrastructure is aging and very expensive to maintain. Prices to consumers keep going up even though the cost of generating electricity keeps going down. The reason is the inefficiency of the utilities who are monopolies in the areas in which they operate.

The right antidote to this is to empower homeowners to generate their own electricity because it creates a lasting competitive force to make their local utility operate better and cheaper no matter if that utility is a for-profit company, or potentially, in Maine’s case, a non-profit community owned alternative.

[Bloomberg Opinion @opinion]

By any economic measure the West is significantly more powerful than the East.

The U.S. and its allies account for 60% of global gross domestic product at current exchange rates; China, Russia and the autocracies amount to barely a third of that https://t.co/RRARh3Sfmt

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Google fights to save Android from extermination by the Apple/Microsoft patent troll Rockstar: http://t.co/Khq5zaoMDQ

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

"If you're entirely bald you're seen as most dominant ... if you have thin hair you're seen as the least powerful." http://t.co/FHbmf51lJT