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  1. Chasing that next BIG thing

    1 mei 2025 · 1 uur 40 min

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    Drew Wilson is back! It's been more than a decade since Adam and Drew have spoken and wow, Drew has been busy. He built Plasso and got acquired by GoDaddy. He built a bank called Letter which didn't work out...and now he's Head of Design at Clerk and back to chasing that next big thing. Lees meer
  2. Make sales not features

    23 april 2025 · 1 uur 8 min

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    Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has learned a lot since he first entered the industry and he's eager to share what he knows, and who he knows, with the world. Lees meer
  3. Making DNSimple

    16 april 2025 · 1 uur 47 min

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    Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more.

  4. The era of durable execution

    11 april 2025 · 1 uur 40 min

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    Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech. Lees meer
  5. The 1000x faster financial database

    3 april 2025 · 1 uur 40 min

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    In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects. Lees meer

    On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?

  6. Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered)

    26 maart 2025 · 1 uur 14 min

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    This week we're bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan -- author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry. Lees meer

    The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you're ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.

  7. Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated"

    20 maart 2025 · 1 uur 5 min

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    Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophisticated news attacks (such as digital skimming) and he's here to share all the technical intricacies and far-reaching implications of this work.

  8. Reaching industrial economies of scale

    12 maart 2025 · 1 uur 45 min

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    Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they're really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases. Lees meer
  9. Antirez returns to Redis!

    7 maart 2025 · 1 uur 34 min

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    Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what's going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some good 'ol LLM inference discussions. Lees meer
  10. Building for application developers

    27 februari 2025 · 1 uur 53 min

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    Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don't even need and they're poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era. Lees meer
  11. Programming with LLMs

    19 februari 2025 · 1 uur 31 min

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    For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too! Lees meer
  12. Fostering open source culture

    13 februari 2025 · 1 uur 24 min

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    Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled "Fostering Open Source Culture" to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code `OSCULTURE20` to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy. Lees meer
  13. Build software that lasts!

    5 februari 2025 · 1 uur 28 min

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    After 30+ years in the software industry, Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS, published articles for places like IETF / IEEE, and built his own parliament monitoring system. That just scratches the surface. Lees meer

    Recently, Bert wrote about what it takes to build software for the long term. Let's dig in.

  14. Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust

    30 januari 2025 · 1 uur 16 min

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    Glauber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Turso, joins us to discuss libSQL, Limbo, and how they're rewriting SQLite in Rust. We discuss their efforts with libSQL, the challenge of SQLite being in the public domain but not being open for contribution, their choice to rewrite everything with Limbo, how this all plays into the future of the Turso platform, how they test Limbo with Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), and their plan to replace SQLite. Lees meer
  15. From open source to acquired

    23 januari 2025 · 1 uur 49 min

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    Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challenges he faced while growing the project, the decision to bootstrap versus seek venture capital, and what ultimately led to the acquisition. We discuss reactions to licensing changes, what it's like to have your thing acquired, the challenging yet fulfilling nature of open source work, what's next for Benthos, and what it takes to enjoy the journey. Lees meer
  16. The world of embedded systems

    16 januari 2025 · 1 uur 38 min

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    Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers, open source resources for embedded, self-driving cars, embedded system like the GoPro, Traeger smokers, and even birthday cards. According to Elecia, embedded is going everywhere. Lees meer
  17. The power of the button

    9 januari 2025 · 1 uur 13 min

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    Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book "Power Button" and the research she did, and why we love/hate buttons so much. We also discuss her upcoming book "License to Spill" as well as the research she's doing on energy drinks. Lees meer
  18. We ain't afraid of no Ghostty!

    18 december 2024 · 1 uur 43 min

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    Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp, took it all the way to IPO, exited in 2023—and now he's working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month, so we sat down to talk through all the details. Lees meer
  19. Building the developer cloud

    12 december 2024 · 1 uur 36 min

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    Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam to discuss the alliance between companies and cloud, something Kurt refers to as the "Rebel Alliance," cloud complexity vs usability, Fly's future with Postgres and why they've waited, thoughts on Neon and Supabase (Kurt shares a hot take), and our CDN saga and plan to build a simple CDN on Fly called Pipely (still a Pipedream). Lees meer
  20. Hack Club takes to the High Seas

    4 december 2024 · 49 min

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    Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that's incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff. Lees meer
  21. Let's archive the web

    27 november 2024 · 1 uur 38 min

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    Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions. Lees meer
  22. Two tickets for Departure, please

    20 november 2024 · 1 uur 48 min

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    Today we're joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe... that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more. Lees meer
  23. Gotta give to get back

    14 november 2024 · 47 min

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    We're on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation. Lees meer

    Special thanks to Nick Nisi and Clark Sell for coming in clutch and getting us the audio to ship this show!

  24. ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols

    6 november 2024 · 1 uur 46 min

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    The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source. Lees meer
  25. Rails is having a moment (again)

    31 oktober 2024 · 2 uur 2 min

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    (Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what's to come in Rails 8. Lees meer
  26. Elasticsearch is open source, again

    24 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 24 min

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    Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source. Lees meer
  27. Lessons from 10k hours of programming (remastered)

    17 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 23 min

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    This week we're going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don't apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, we'll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck... Lees meer
  28. The Moneyball approach

    10 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 47 min

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    John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves. Lees meer
  29. Free-threaded Python

    2 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 27 min

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    Jerod is joined by the co-hosts of core.py , Pablo Galindo & Łukasz Langa, a podcast about Python internals by people who work on Python internals. Python 3.13 is right around the corner, which means the Global Interpeter Lock (GIL) is now experimentally optional! This is a huge deal as Python is finally free-threaded. There's more to discuss, of course, so we get into all the gory details. Lees meer
  30. Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2

    26 september 2024 · 1 uur 15 min

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    Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what's new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan's open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused "JavaScript" trademark from the giant's clutches. Lees meer
  31. The best, worst codebase

    18 september 2024 · 1 uur 24 min

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    Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let's just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There's even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there. Lees meer
  32. Building customizable ergonomic keyboards

    12 september 2024 · 1 uur 40 min

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    Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard...we cover it all. Lees meer
  33. Open source threaded team chat?!

    5 september 2024 · 1 uur 32 min

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    We're joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip's origins, how it's open source, the way it's led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community...all the things. Lees meer
  34. Reinventing Kafka on object storage

    29 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 44 min

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    Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka" that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it's so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream. Lees meer
  35. Flavors of Ship It!

    21 augustus 2024 · 2 uur 9 min

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    Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you're not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for "Ship it" wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after `git push` — and today's flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint. Lees meer
  36. Why we need Ladybird

    14 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 43 min

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    Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it's going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that's for the people. Lees meer
  37. Into the Bobiverse

    7 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 31 min

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    Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us "Into the Bobiverse" and other books he's written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what's next in book 5 coming out in September 2024. Lees meer
  38. Open is the way

    31 juli 2024 · 1 uur 49 min

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    Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta's generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as "open source." Lees meer
  39. The man behind the Sandwich

    24 juli 2024 · 1 uur 40 min

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    Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he's making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision. Lees meer
  40. What even is the modern data stack

    17 juli 2024 · 1 uur 12 min

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    Benn Stancil's weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team. Lees meer
  41. It all starts with Postgres

    11 juli 2024 · 1 uur 35 min

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    Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They're laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror. Lees meer

    Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase.

  42. Code review anxiety

    3 juli 2024 · 1 uur 12 min

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    Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper "Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety". We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone...and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science. Lees meer
  43. MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH

    26 juni 2024 · 1 uur 32 min

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    Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it's needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there's a better way, and why it's not as simple as just opting out. Lees meer
  44. Securing GitHub

    19 juni 2024 · 1 uur 30 min

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    Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more. Lees meer
  45. Retired, not tired.

    12 juni 2024 · 1 uur 33 min

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    Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it's one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be "retired," but he's not tired. In this episode Kelsey shares what drives him, what he fears, and how he thinks through his life choices and parenting. This is a good one. Lees meer
  46. Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2

    5 juni 2024 · 2 uur 47 min

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    Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI at Microsoft Build 2024. It's safe to say that Microsoft is all-in on AI.

  47. Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1

    30 mei 2024 · 1 uur 4 min

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    Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor's bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024's discussions and announcements proves it. Lees meer
  48. From Sun to Oxide

    22 mei 2024 · 2 uur 33 min

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    Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide -- from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide. Lees meer
  49. Building the Patreon for developers

    15 mei 2024 · 1 uur 47 min

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    Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what's in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow. Lees meer
  50. Good timing makes great products

    8 mei 2024 · 1 uur 20 min

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    Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled "Why Now?" You may remember Paul from his last appearance (a fan favorite) talking with Jerod about complex systems & second-order effects. Paul's book, "Why Now?" explores the concept of timing and the importance of understanding the 'why now' in business and product development. We discuss timing examples from the book that were either too early or too late (such as the first video phone and car phones), the need to consider both technological advancements and user demand when assessing timing, the significance of timing in the success of companies like Apple and the launch of the iPhone, Uber and Heroku, and more. Also, join our Slack community for a chance to get a signed copy of Paul's book. Lees meer