Creator of Ruby on Rails and chief technology officer and co-owner of 37signals, which makes Basecamp and Hey.
Rework rejects the venture-funded growth sequence - outside capital, long-range plans, headcount as a measure of progress - and sets out how a small, profitable software company is run instead, from a firm that has done it for two decades. Remote, published in 2013, specifies the hiring, writing and management practices distributed teams need.
2 books of their own · 12 books they recommend
DHH surfaces books mainly through Twitter/X threads and his writing, often tied to a political or economic argument he's making (antitrust, labor, media). He has also named the handful of novels he thinks about regularly. His recommendations are opinion-driven and frequently contrarian. The recommendations are drawn from his public talks, interviews, podcast appearances, and posts; each book links to where it surfaced.