David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

And then along come us and say, yeah, you know what?

Maybe you should have a computer.

Oh, plenty.

There's pain points to operating computers of all kinds.

Have you tried just like using a personal computer these days?

Half the time when my kids or my wife have a problem, I go like, have you tried turning it just off and on again?

Computers are inherently painful to humans.

Owning your own computer, though, kind of makes some of that pain worth it.

There's a responsibility that comes with actually owning the hardware that, to me, at least make the burden of operating that hardware seem slightly more enjoyable.

Now,

There are things you have to learn, certainly at our scale, too.

I mean, we're not just buying a single computer and plugging it into an Ethernet.

We have to have racks and racks of them, and you've got to set it up with network cabling.

And there is some specialized expertise in that.

But it's not like that expertise is like building nuclear rockets, right?

It's not like it's not widely distributed.

Literally the entire internet was built on people knowing how to plug in a computer to the internet, right?

Oh, Ethernet cable goes here.

Power cable goes here.

Let's boot up Linux.