David Heinemeier Hansson — Co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Makers of Basecamp + HEY)
Co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Makers of Basecamp + HEY)
David Heinemeier Hansson ranks #369 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Computer Software, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 147.9K followers and published 5 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.7% average engagement rate.
- 147.9K followers
- 5 posts / 30d
- 0.7% avg engagement
- — follower growth / 30d
The roast
David Heinemeier Hansson has spent twenty years building productivity software for teams that are apparently too busy to notice his own engagement rate is lower than the time it takes to explain why Ruby on Rails is still relevant. He writes best-sellers on not being crazy at work, which explains why he spends his time racing cars and posting five times a month to ensure his co-workers have the office to themselves.
About David
Creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Basecamp & HEY), NYT best-selling author (REWORK, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, REMOTE), director on the Shopify board, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, investor in Danish startups, frequent podcast guest, and father of three.
Highlights
- Big Audience — 147,936 followers · top 1%
- Top 5% in Computer Software — Ranked #73 of 4267 creators
- High Impact — 977 avg engagements per post · top 5%
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #138 of 5205 creators
Recent posts
You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier. Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor. What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of some
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From our book Getting Real, 2006, Chapter 87, Ride Out the Storm: "Wait until knee-jerk reactions to changes die down before taking action When you rock the boat, there will be waves. After you introduce a new feature, change a policy, or remove something, knee-jerk reactions, often negative, will pour in. Resist the urge to panic or rapidly change things in response. Passions flare in the beginning. But if you ride out this initial 24-48 hour period, things will usually settle down. Most people respond before they’ve really dug in and used whatever you’ve added (or gotten along with what yo
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I've been working on Basecamp for half my life, and nearly my entire professional career in software. The first code was written in the summer of 2003 when I was just 23. Now I'm 46, and we've just released the fifth major version. It's an incredible update to a service that continues to help about a million users a day avoid dropping the ball when working with others. It's AI accessible, but not agent hysteric. It's still famously easy to use, still executes the basics beautifully, and still focuses on the small to medium-sized teams we've been serving in the Fortune 5,000,000 for decades.
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