Look: I'm all for working sustainably and creatively. "Hard work = effort" as a sole proxy without targeted, deep practice is suboptimal. But is DHH trying to

Look: I'm all for working sustainably and creatively. "Hard work = effort" as a sole proxy without targeted, deep practice is suboptimal. But is DHH trying to get us to believe that he made Rails without working hard? He just fell into auto racing and a lavish lifestyle without hard work in the earlier days of 37Signals/Basecamp and instead relied on his "creativity, insights, breakthroughs, rebellions" without ANY head-bashing and getting stuck trying to make Rails 1.0 a great system for web development in Ruby? This may be the greatest example of Survivorship Bias I've seen in recent history.