| He's also in a bit of a unique situation because of his public political profile was essentially forced. - Politics at work were becoming a huge problem at 37Signals - They asked that politics be kept out of company chats, but encouraged people to be political active on non-work channels/social media/etc even during work hours - People lost their minds at this incredibly reasonable request which then blew up on the internet - They offered any employee 6 months severance if they weren't comfortable with the new policy. About 1/3 of the company took it. - Rails Conf dis-invited the creator of Rails - Obviously, this was not going to sit well as people were trying to create a very public political flex against DHH and at that point, he started getting much more vocal about the problem of politics sweeping into every aspect of life. In the following years... - DHH becomes very publicly outspoken against politics infecting everything - 37 Signals publishes another successful book - Ships much more quickly as all of the people constantly distracted by politics at work are no longer in the building - Starts the Rails World conference to great success - Rails Conf shuts down - DHH ships Omarchy which is getting significant support So the end result has been that a bunch of people tried to essentially "cancel" DHH and the result was him having virtually non-stop, resounding success while publicly speaking out against those who created the problem in the first place...because some people really do just want to build cool things regardless of your politics. |
Then he started a blog, built on his companies software, where he constantly shares extreme political opinions. When you are the public face of a company (and framework) and you are publishing your political opinions using your companies platform, you are now bringing politics to work. He’s a hypocrite.