David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

If you take away the pursuit,

of those kinds of problems, if you eliminate all the problems from your plate, you're gonna get depressed.

You're not gonna have a good time.

Now, there are people who can do that, but they're not the same kind of people who built these kinds of companies.

So you have to accept the kind of individual you are.

If you are on this path,

Don't bullshit yourself.

Don't bullshit yourself into thinking, I'm just going to sacrifice everything, my health, my family, my hobbies, my friends.

But in 10 years, I'm going to make it all up.

Because in 10 years, I can do it.

It never works out like that.

It doesn't work out on both ends of it.

It does not work out if you're successful and you sell your company, because you'll

get bored out of your mind after two weeks on retirement.

It doesn't work out if the company is a failure and you regret the last 10 years spent for nothing.

It doesn't work out if it all works and you stay in the business because it never gets any easier.

So you're going to fail on all metrics if you just go, there's only work and nothing else.

And

I didn't want that.

I wanted the happiness of flow.