David Heinemeier Hansson
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5,915 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Aug
David Heinemeier Hansson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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engagement is about cool Linux stuff, cool technology stuff.
Look, I discovered a new computer.
Can you see how fast it is?
And I can have those conversations with other people who are just also excited about computers.
And then there's like ten percent of it left that's like, all right, I'll chime in on something that's a little controversial and we can have a little discussion there.
And then we could just go back to being excited about computers.
The algorithm is actually very good at finding stuff that you will find interesting or is I shouldn't say that, engaging.
Sometimes it's enraging, but it is engaging.
And therefore, reveal preferences that most people want a for you page.
They don't want just a following feed.
Well the problem is the the reward function is engagement.
And as soon as the reward function is engagement, engagement's gonna follow base instincts and here we go.
But
I also don't wanna be so negative to me, and I get we all have our own personalized algorithms.
And sometimes it gets a little much.
But I would say on average, over the last ten years, this is the best X has ever been.
And I say that as someone who cares about a lot of technology talk, a lot of Linux talk, a lot of that, that that's able to happen now in a way where it doesn't constantly get gate crashed by people who want to drag it into some political discussion.
I find to be
really awesome.
I find actually X to be a great place to find that.
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