18: The Joy of Getting Real About Work, with David Heinemeier Hansson The JOMOcast with Christina Crook

David Heinemeier Hansson is a leading mind in the tech world inspiring the world to reconsider it’s working relationship with, well, work. As the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework, co-founder & CTO at Basecamp -- a saner way to manage projects and communicate company-wide -- and bestselling author, along with Basecamp co-founder Jason Fried, of It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, Rework (which is also the name of the Basecamp podcast) + Remote, a book arguing that the time is right for the expansion of remote work and how to navigate the pitfalls. Check out our interview with the one and only @DHH! Key Takeaways:- How allowing our expectations to continuously evolve and adapt is crucial to maintaining joy in an ever-changing reality- How creating healthy habits require self-reflection and honesty with ourselves about how “self-disciplined” and consistent we really can be, and why sometimes missing out is far easier than attempting to moderate- How healthier and more joyful patterns of life require us to fill the voids left when we miss out- How negotiating with competing demands of well-being, productivity, temptation, and “bad for you” things requires becoming okay with short-term inconsistency and imperfection- How our goals for well-being, balance, and self-actualization must always be based on a strong understanding and acceptance of who we really are, not an idealized version of ourselves Favorite Quotes“All deadlines are made up… and when the world changes, you can change your opinion too, about what that deadline means or whether it even makes sense.”“If you spend enough time on Twitter… especially if you spend enough time on Twitter arguing with strangers, you get to a place where… you just get angry.”“Paper for me has been the incarnation of the joy of missing out… I just sit down with that book.”“There are all these lessons that you cannot teach by words… they have to be taught by feelings, by experiences, by consequences.”SupportThis podcast is made possible by you — our listeners all over the world — from Brazil to Australia, the USA to Singapore. Please support the JOMO(cast) for just $3 a month. Sign up at patreon.com/jomocast.Go Deeper Sign Up for 7 Days of JOMO Quests, a free series of science-backed challenges to reclaim joy: experiencejomo.com/free-resources. Follow @experiencejomo on Instagram, Facebook + Twitter. Resources- David on Twitter: @dhh- You can learn to code- yes, you: check out David’s community-friendly Ruby On Rails- Check out David’s books including Getting Real, Rework, Remote, and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
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