David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

is impactful in and of itself.

This whole idea that I thought I had a fair understanding of the boundaries of life in my early 30s, like, what is this about?

I mean, I've been on this earth long enough now here to know something.

And he goes, I don't know.

I did not know.

I did not know that the scale was much broader.

And I've often talked about the joys of having kids and just seeing your own DNA, which...

It's remarkable to me because literally that's been the pursuit of humans since the dawn of time.

I am here today because, whatever, 30,000 years ago, some Neanderthal had the same realization that I should procreate and I should continue my bloodline.

And that all amounts to me sitting here now.

But...

it didn't become a practical reality to me before meeting the right woman.

And I think that that's sometimes not part of the conversation enough, that there's something broken at the moment about how

people pair up in the Western world.

And it's at the source of why we're not having enough children, because there's not enough couples.

There's not enough marriage.

There's not a lot of these.

There's not enough of all these traditional values that even 50, 60, 70 years ago was just taken for granted.

We're in this grand experiment of what happens if we just remove a bunch of institutions?

What happens if we no longer value marriage as a