The Consequences of Mistakes and Understanding Risks in High-Stakes Situations
Exploring how small errors can have significant consequences, the chapter uses a car race analogy to illustrate the importance of risk assessment for personal development and challenges the modern society's risk-averse stance.
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15 years ago, Gerhard discovered magic in the form of Ruby on Rails. It was intuitive and it just worked. That is the context in which Gerhard fell in love with infrastructure and operations.
Today, for special episode 77, we start at Seven Shipping Principles, and, in the true spirit of Ship It, we’ll see what happens next.
Our guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of Basecamp & HEY, and a lot more - check out dhh.dk.
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