David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

something to aspire to.

What happened if parenthood is now seen in some camps as almost something like weird or against your own self-expression?

It's a grand experiment that

I'm kind of curious how it turns out.

I'd prefer to watch it as a movie, like the children of men of like, that was a good show.

I kind of wish that was reality, but we're seeing that reality play out while I'm sitting here in a very traditional two parent loving household with three children and going, this is now at the top.

I've done a lot of things in my life.

I've built software, I've built companies, I've raced cars, I've done all sorts of things.

And I would trade all of it in a heartbeat for my kids.

That's just a really fascinating human experience.

That the depth of that bond is something you can't appreciate before you have it.

But I also think there is a role to play to talk it up.

Because we're being bombarded constantly with reasons why not to.

Oh, it's too expensive.

Well, you could get divorced and then you might lose half.

There's all these voices constantly articulating the case against marriage, the case against having children.

That those of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing

to get married and to have children, have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would have seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental as that.

But I have become kind of obligated in that sense to do just that, to talk it up, to say, do you know what?

You can look at everything that I've done.