Simon Hørup Eskildsen: belief

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…Turbo Farer has like really gone on a huge tear, and I, I do have to mention that like you’re one of, you’re not my newest member of the Danish AHU Mafia, where like there’s a lot of legendary programmers that have come out of it, like, uh, beyond Trotro, Rasmus, lado Berg and the V eight team and, and Google Maps team. Uh, you’re mostly a Canadian now, but isn’t that interesting? There’s so many, so much like strong Danish presence. Yeah, I was writing a post, um, not that long ago about sort of the influences. So I grew up in Denmark, right? I left, I left when, when I was 18 to go to Canada to, to work at Shopify. Um, and so I, like, I’ve, I would still say that I feel more Danish than, than Canadian. This is also the weird accent. I can’t say th because it, this is like, I don’t, you know, my wife is also Canadian, um, and I think. I think like one of the things in, in Denmark is just like, there’s just such a ruthless pragmatism and there’s also a big focus on just aesthetics. Like, they’re like very, people really care about like where, what things look like. Um, and like Canada has a lot of attributes, US has, has a lot of attributes, but I think there’s been lots of the great things to carry. I don’t know what’s in the water in Ahu though. Um, and I don’t know that I could be considered part of the Mafi mafia quite yet, uh, compared to the phenomenal individuals we just mentioned. Barra OV is also, uh, Danish Canadian. Okay. Yeah. I don’t know where he lives now, but, and he’s the PHP. Yeah. And obviously Toby German, but moved to Canada as well. Yes. Like this is like import that, uh, that, that is an interesting, um, talent move.…

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