David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

When you're in a race car, there's something very real on the line.

If you get it wrong, at the very least, you're going to spin out and probably hit a wall and it's going to be expensive.

At the very worst...

you're not getting out alive.

And even if modern race cars have gotten way safer than they used to be, there is that element of danger that's real, that there are people who still get seriously hurt or even killed in a race car.

It's mercifully rare compared to what it used to be when those maniacs in the 60s would do Formula One and whatever, 13% of the grid wouldn't make it to the end of the year because they'd just die in a

fiery flaming fireball but there's still some of it there and I think that

sense that there's something on the line really contributes to it.

But it's something more than that.

There's just a physical sensation.

There's activation of all your forces.

There's the flow.

And I think that really cements like why I got addicted.

Because I always, I love that flow I got out of programming.

But getting flow out of programming is a very inconsistent process.

I can't just sit down in front of a keyboard and go like, all right,

Let's get the flow going.

It doesn't happen like that.

The problem has to be just right.

It has to meet my skills in just the right moment.