Go Against the Grain with David Heinemeier Hansson
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
David Heinemeier Hansson is a programmer, writer, and entrepreneur. He changed the future of technology with Ruby on Rails, has influenced the way businesses are being built and run with his books; Getting Real, Rework, and Remote; Office Not Required, and has helped many businesses (including my own photo studio) stay organized and productive with the integrated project management solution, Basecamp.
David is passionate about finding alternative ways to do things. He loves looking at the status quo, ripping it apart and putting back together only the elements that make the most sense. In our conversation, David helps budding entrepreneurs cross the bridge from wantrepreneur to taking first steps as well as offers some animated anecdotes and mind shifts for how to make your existing businesses and teams ultra productive, passionate, and value driven.
In today's episode,
* If you want to build a successful business, try integrating existing ideas and tools rather than creating a new standalone tool.
* You don’t have to be a genius, nor do you have to outwork everyone to be an entrepreneur. You can build a profitable business starting with 10 hours a week and existing business models.
* Take control of the things that you decide are important and make sense to you. Whether you’re on your own or a manager of a team, it’s critical to assess how you’re most productive and happiest when creating the structure of your work-life.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, how's it's Chase? |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you so much for listening to another episode. |
| 0:08.0 | We're here on the show. |
| 0:10.0 | That's right, Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm very, very happy to be in your ears. |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:15.0 | Today's show is awesome. |
| 0:17.0 | We're going into some uncharted territory. |
| 0:20.0 | My guest today is a technologist. |
| 0:23.7 | That's right, a coder, a programmer. |
| 0:26.1 | I've always believed that writing code is wildly creative. |
| 0:29.4 | Of course, this person has a ton of design shops, |
| 0:31.6 | and they are an entrepreneur in their own right |
| 0:33.2 | because this particular person created the creator of Ruby on Rails, also an entrepreneur |
| 0:40.3 | who created Basecamp and 37 signals. |
| 0:43.8 | My guest today is David Heinemeyer Hansen. |
| 0:47.0 | That's right. |
| 0:47.9 | If you at all think that there's a piece of your brain that thinks that an engineer isn't |
| 0:52.3 | doing creative work, you have to listen to this. Also, I don't think I've, I don't think we have a lot of passion on the show, but David is |
| 0:59.3 | passion 11. If there are conceptions that you've had about how work should be, you must listen to |
| 1:06.3 | this podcast. If you have conceptions about what it means to be creative, who is and who isn't and do you fit in, you have to listen to this episode. |
| 1:13.9 | If you think that the way we have worked, maybe work today or have worked in the past, has anything to do with what it should look like in the future, you have to listen to this episode. |
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