David Heinemeier Hansson
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Aug
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I mean, imagine growing or being born in like eighteen eighty.
Imagine seeing the First World War and the Second World War.
Imagine seeing the airplane.
The radio, television.
I mean
The transformation, I think uh Peter Thiel makes this argument that basically nothing has happened in the physical world in quite a long time.
We've been stagnant.
All the development has been in the digital realm and this
important as that is
Um, it's actually not as consequential as we like to believe it is.
Maybe AI will be that thing that is more consequential.
It does seem to point that way.
But there are other humans at other times who have lived through transitions that for them certainly would feel as monumentous as what we're living through.
And I think having that sense of history that you're not
That special in your sense of worries, in your anxieties?
This was one of the great revelations of discovering the um stoic writings.
You have these guys twenty-five hundred years ago dealing with very familiar dilemmas and challenges in their life and
Recognizing that we're not so special in that regard, I think is a is a great liberation.
Because then you think, Okay, well we have uh whatever, two hundred thousand years of human development before us and they somehow made it through.
Yes.
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