Blasphemy & Revelation – with DHH
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However, there is one thing about the interview that bothered me. DHH said your are not a product company but just a consultant if you don't create products for yourself.
There are tremendous opportunities in industries that don't have as many talented technologists. For example, I am interested in industries that I don't make a living professionally such as retail business and health care. Just because I didn't study medicine, shouldn't stop me or anyone else from trying to make a product to help the health care industry.
This route of emersing yourself with customers from another industries is much harder. However, as geeks, we already have too many products made for geeks. There are plethora of important problems in less tech savvy sectors waiting for us to solve.
My take is that both strategies will work if implemented correctly. In the case of "products for others", heavily relying on customer development and similar Lean Startup principles will be particularly important, given that you are not a customer of your own product, and therefore may not fully grasp your customers' problems and requirements.
Nice interview.
I'm not sure such a thing alone can determine our philosophy. Based on his Twitter feed I feel like DHH is more libertarian than the average Dane you're likely to meet.
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In Denmark you won't see TV programs bleep over profanity and you generally wont see people write f##k instead of just the putting the real thing.
I think most of us danes find the "fear" of certain words to be quite perplexing. And the idea that it's somehow better to see f##k instead of fuck, even more so.
It's as if there's some mystical belief in the "evil" power inherent in these words, that rationally can't really be described as anything but superstition.
Since us danes have a really, really hard time understanding how a word in itself could possible be offending, it's quite tempting to just not give a damn and use a lot of them. Especially if you find some kind of joy in poking at other peoples superstitions. And I suspect that's the case with DHH...
People are not willing to not use the word because they feel it express their position, but the shorthand version is almost like an inline apology.
Somehow, it comes off as less vulgar. I don't think it has anything to do with a belief in an inherit evil power.
Typically with a funny accent :)
[edit] On the other hand english profanity has kinda made it into danish. You will hear danes say "shit" or "fuck" when speaking to each other in danish...