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Discussions: 2026-W43 — page 33
Discussions added each week. These are publication dates here; the original episodes may be older.
- 4:02:01–4:06:32
The speakers discuss Apple’s hardware achievements and Hansson’s concerns about its leadership and future.
- 3:57:04–4:02:01
Hansson discusses the court decision and planned HEY changes, then weighs founder conviction and developer relations.
- 3:52:48–3:57:04
Hansson recounts the public dispute over HEY, its temporary resolution and his admiration for Epic’s legal challenge.
- 3:48:14–3:52:48
Hansson explains the ambition behind HEY and recalls Apple’s rejection of an update over payment arrangements.
- 3:43:25–3:48:14
Hansson recalls his enthusiasm for Apple and describes how his view changed with the app-store business model.
- 3:38:44–3:43:25
Hansson discusses work-sample hiring and technical leadership, then criticises Apple’s direction.
- 3:33:48–3:38:44
The speakers discuss Musk’s appeal to technical talent; Hansson describes evaluating applicants through writing and programming ability.
- 3:29:20–3:33:48
Hansson describes home-server experiments and explains how professional data-centre staff maintain the company’s equipment.
- 3:24:59–3:29:20
Hansson discusses modern servers, decentralisation and the practical knowledge needed to operate owned infrastructure.
- 3:21:05–3:24:59
Hansson describes workloads where cloud elasticity helps, the company’s migration and its remaining storage contract.
- 3:16:34–3:21:05
Hansson explains why infrastructure costs matter to him and questions assumptions about cloud simplicity and savings.
- 3:12:20–3:16:34
Hansson describes pursuing several skills and answers criticism of spending time on the company’s cloud exit.
- 3:07:40–3:12:20
Hansson discusses meaning, responsibility and balancing serious work with other pursuits.
- 3:02:40–3:07:40
Hansson discusses the appeal of creative work, flow and the difficulty of repeating a successful company’s path.
- 2:58:23–3:02:40
Hansson explains why he prefers a small enduring business and rejects the idea that success requires growing into a much larger company.
- 2:54:17–2:58:23
Hansson discusses limiting meetings and finding relationships outside work, while acknowledging that others value office life.
- 2:49:21–2:54:17
Hansson discusses candid disagreement, complementary skills and moving from a product idea to something tangible.
- 2:44:29–2:49:21
The speakers discuss Bezos’s investment perspective, then Hansson describes his partnership and disagreements with Fried.
- 2:40:22–2:44:29
Hansson describes Bezos buying existing founder shares and explains how the investment affected his sense of financial security.
- 2:35:43–2:40:22
Hansson recalls building Basecamp with a small team and questions the incentives attached to venture funding.
- 2:31:10–2:35:43
Hansson discusses adding a finance role and argues that smaller teams reduce coordination and planning overhead.
- 2:26:30–2:31:10
Hansson distinguishes learning from skilled colleagues from excusing bad behaviour, and describes his own management experiment.
- 2:21:55–2:26:30
Hansson reflects on durable technical problems and argues that managers should understand the craft they supervise.
- 2:17:22–2:21:55
The speakers discuss database abstraction, composing tools and the tension between progress and compatibility.