David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

And it was an open secret.

Not even an open secret.

It was an open truth.

Through all of history, you listen to anyone who's ever had children, they will all say, my children are the most important to me.

Yet somehow that wisdom couldn't sink in until you were in the situation yourself.

I find those truths fascinating.

When...

you can't actually relay them with words.

I can tell you, hey, Lex, what are you doing?

Get a wife, make some kids, get a move on it.

And these are just words.

They're not communicating the gravity of what it actually feels to go through the experience.

And you can't really learn it without going through it.

Now, of course, you can be influenced and whatever.

We can all help contribute and little sparks and little seeds can grow in your mind about it, but it still has to happen.

And now that I am in this situation and just the sheer joy on a daily basis where you think your level of life satisfaction is on a scale of one to 10.

And then the satisfaction of seeing your children understand something, accomplish something, learn something, do something, just be.

just goes like, oh my God, the scale doesn't go from 1 to 10, it goes from 1 to 100.

And I've been playing down here in the 1 to 10 range all this time and there's a 1 to 100?

That has been humbling in a way that