Sublime

• Grew up in Charlottesville, VA


• On the Internet since 1991, which is my actual "home town"


• Went to MIT because I loved the Richard Feynman autobiographies


• Started two companies


• CEO of GitHub from 2018 through 2021


• Live in California

• As human beings it is our

Working with unceasing intensity is artificial and unsustainable. In the moment, it might exude a false sense of usefulness, but when continued over time, it estranges us from our fundamental nature, generates misery, and, from a strictly economic perspective, almost certainly holds us back from reaching our full capabilities. A more natural, slowe

Real value is no longer created by traditional measures of productivity. It’s created by personal interactions, innovation, creative solutions, resilience, and the power of speed.

“Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any given context.

At the moment we think we’re prosperous if we are working ourselves ragged to buy things—most of which don’t even make us happy. He said we could redefine prosperity to mean having time to spend with our children, or to be in nature, or to sleep, or to dream, or to have secure work. Most people don’t want a fast life—they want a good life. Nobody l

(early adopters).

"The person who focuses on one task and sees it through to completion—even if they work in a somewhat slow or outdated manner—beats the endless optimizer who jumps from tool to tool and always hopes a new piece of technology will help them finish what they start."