David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

It's a bit of a lottery.

In a race car, it's not a lottery at all.

You sit down in that car, you turn the ignition, you go out on track, and I get flow virtually guaranteed.

Because you need, or I need, at least 100% of my brain processing power to be able to go at the speed I go without crashing.

So...

There's no time to think about dinner tonight or the meeting next week or product launch.

It's completely zen in actually the literal sense of the word.

I think of someone who's really good at meditation.

That's probably kind of state they get into.

It's just clear you're in the now.

There's nothing but you and the next corner.

That's a really addictive thing.

So after I've had that, I couldn't get enough.

I just, I kept going to the track every opportunity I got every single weekend for about four years, I would go to the track.

And by the end of that time, I'd finally worked up enough skill and enough success with the company that I could afford to go quote unquote real racing.

So I started doing that.

I started driving these Porsches.

And then as soon as I got into that, as soon as I got into quote unquote real competition, I was like, I wonder how far you can take this.

And it didn't take that long before I decided, you know what?

I can take this all the way.