DHH
@dhh
Father of three, Creator of Ruby on Rails + Omarchy, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals, Shopify director, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winner.
Joined April 2008
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The second question is always: How do you deal with the glare!? Don't you have to keep the blinds down all day? And the answer is no, thanks to 3M and SCIENCE! Incredible technology.
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A picture of @DHH's desk goes viral every few months, and he says the number one comment he always gets is that it can't be a real office because it’s too clean.
His response:
"If I have shit all over my desk, I'm not creating work, because my mind will just go to the shit."
“It's a bit like that Marie Kondo thing where you go through simplifying your home and throwing out all this stuff. It actually creates free mental space.”
“I need this pure cocoon.”
“It's actually a form of procrastination, and I need to run out of obvious things to procrastinate on before I'll start the real work.”
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