Hard work

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— If you wanna be Senna, you gotta be a maniac. — But I would argue that there's most disciplines like programming allows if you want to be, quote, unquote, "the best," whatever that means, I think that's judged at the end of your life. And usually if you look at that path, it's gonna be an nonlinear one. It you're not gonna look like the life of an Olympic athlete who's singular focus. There's gonna be some acid there in the 20s or there's going to be a several detours, which the true greats. There's gonna be detours. And sometimes they're not gonna be Steve Jobs asset type of situation. There'll be just different companies you've worked for different careers or different sort of efforts you allocated your life to. But it's gonna be non-linear. It's not gonna be a singular focus. — The way I think about this sometimes is I want a good bargain on learning. I can become in the top 5%

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of whatever I defined as good at something much, much easier. Perhaps it's 20 times easier, 100 times easier to get into the top 5% than it is to get into the top 0.1%. That's almost impossibly hard to get into that. But if I'm content just being in the top 5%, I can be in the top 5% on like five things at once. I can get really good at writing. I can get decent at driving a race car. I can become pretty good at programming. I can run a company. I can have a family. I can do a lot of things at the same time. That gives me sort of that variety that almost was idealized Karl Marx has this idea, "Oh, I'm gonna fish in the morning and hammer in the evening and paint on the weekends, right?" That there's a sense for me at least where his diagnosis of alienation was true. That just that tunnel vision. There's just this one thing I'm just gonna focus on that gives me a sense of alienation I can't stomach. When I'm really deep on programming and sometimes I go deep for weeks,

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maybe even in a few cases months, I have to come up for air and I have to go do something else. Like, all right, that was programming for this year. I've done my part and I'm gonna go off riding or annoy people on the internet or drive some race cars to do something else. And then I can do the programming thing with full intensity again next year. — Speaking of annoying people on the internet, you gotta explain to me this drama. Okay, so what is this guy that said, imagine losing to Jira but boasting that you have a couple million dollars per year. So this had to do with this almost now a meme decision to leave the cloud. DHH left the cloud. I think that's literally a meme, but it's also a fascinating decision. Can you talk through the full saga of DHH leaves the cloud? — Yes. — Of leaving AWS saving money. And I guess the case this person is making now. — Is that we wasted our time optimizing a business that could've been a hundred times bigger if we'd just gone for the moon.