David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

The Amiga was really popular in Europe.

But it wasn't very popular at all in the U.S., as far as I understand it.

It wasn't popular in Japan.

There were just different machines.

The Apple II was a big thing in the U.S.

I'd never even heard of Apple in the 80s in Copenhagen.

But the Amiga 500 was the machine that brought me to want to try it again.

And you know what's funny?

The reason I wanted to try it again was I remembered the first time to learn, and then there was this programming language that was literally called Easy Amos.

Like the easy version of Amos.

I'm like, if it's easy Amos, how hard can it be?

I got to be able to figure this out.

And this time I tried harder.

I got into conditionals.

I got into loops.

I got into all these things and I still, I couldn't do it.

And on the second attempt, I really got to the point of like, maybe this is, maybe I'm not smart enough.

Maybe programming is just not, maybe it's too much math.

Like I like math in this sort of superficial way.

I don't like it in the deep way that some of my perhaps slightly nerdier friends did, who I had tremendous respect for.